The first snow of 2005!

Unless it had already fallen undetected in the wee hours of some morning, TODAY is the first snow of 2005! (A few weeks earlier than last year!)

This is what we woke up to this morning:



"Sol in the Snow" (left behind from last night's soirée with the usual suspects)


We woke up about 10am. There was already a faint mist of rain falling about, but that made the snow more perfect for packing snowballs!


We made our first snowman together! [insert "Awww" here]



And, not *only* was it the first snow of this year, or our first snowman....it was our CATS' first snow! They had watched it fall by the windows last year, but have never walked through it. We were wondering which one would actually go out into it...


...and to our surprise, it was "Baby", the scardy-cat of the bunch! (Granted, the snow wasn't very high, especially after we stomped it down making our snowman, but it still was wet and cold. We're very proud of her!)



She finally walked timidly to a chair where there was less snow and tried to hunker down, but it didn't last long before she went back inside.


It's still dripping rain here and there and the snow is melting a way a bit, but our snowman still stands! We'll see what it's like to get around tomorrow. Icy, I'm sure!