Charmion, as frustrating as that trip into the yard was, I would have liked to have seen it (chuckling only because you appear to be unharmed). Trying to call for help with a phone would mean digging it out and exposing skin, so probably a last resort?

One of these days someone is going to start posting about the leaking roof problem of ice dams.

I miss gnu's posts about the snow around his and his mom's house.

There is so little precipitation here that the few flakes have drifted against the edge of the lawn beside the bare concrete of the driveway.