From The "It Could Be Worse" Files...

My daughter, Jessica called on Wednesday night and told me they were in the middle of a blizzard where she lives near Rapid City, SD. I know we got a little bit of "Snizzle" today here in central MN, but this is what my daughter and grandson woke up to yesterday: The door on the left-hand side is her front door. That is the back of her car in the garage. She said there was not that much snow in most places, but it all seemed to drift in just outside of her front door. She was able to get out through the garage, but is still not able to go anywhere. Here is my grandson, CJ playing in the middle of the street, on a huge snow drift. Obviously, he doesn't have to worry about traffic, since no one is able to get through.

This is her short-legged dog, Bart, trying to figure out how to get down the stairs off the deck. I'm pretty sure she just let him do his business right there on the deck. He'd surely get lost in all that snow.

Here's one more shot looking out off the deck:

And one more parting shot of my grandson, CJ, just because he's so cute and this grandma misses him so much. He seemed to enjoy playing in the snow, even if it was only November 5th.