Lazy Saturday Blizzard Memories

(Warning. There are no horses in this post, only horrifyingly adorable photos of majestic huskies in the snow. Proceed with caution.)

As I'm sure everyone knows, last weekend the DC area was hit with a massive blizzard dubbed Snowzilla... (Seriously. Click that link. The photo is worth it.) While the 25+ inches of snow that fell on my house over the weekend obviously limited my ability to see my pony (or drive anywhere), that didn't stop them from being fun for the rest of us. As such, I present to you a timeline of blizzard moments captured by cell phone camera...

The dogs and I jogged out for a quick run just as the first flakes started to fall on Friday.

Of course. My mom was worried I wouldn't be prepared. She shouldn't have...

Though, by the time my husband fought his way home from work, the snow had really intensified...

Thankfully, we were fully prepared and all of us settled in for the night, ready to spend a nice weekend totally snowed in.

I woke the next morning to a lull in the storm and about 18" of snow.

Which all of us found super fun to try to clear up...

Not willing to let 18" define it, the storm kicked back into full blizzard mode... meanwhile I attempted to recuperate from round one of shoveling.

Still, you can't spend all day hiding from a historic blizzard. Especially when you own adventurous huskies.

So we went on a really long and fun "walk" during the worst of it.

Some of us had to rest before heading back....

Some of us were so tired out by the height of the snow, comfort had to be taken in the form of stuffed hedgehog cuddles...

And, some of us found solace in other things...

The next morning dawned bright and beautiful and buried ... in 25+ inches of snow. Oof.

So we did the only reasonable thing we could think of... 

And went snow-exploring!

It was absolutely gorgeous along the creek trail.

Though even the dogs found the deep snow rather tiring.

But there's no real rest right after a snowstorm, so after walks I got to work shoveling out.

And the dogs supervised...

Even though our neighborhood was fully plowed and accessible, I still ended up with two full days off of work due to all major roads in the city being mostly impassable. It's tough to find a place to put over 2 feet of snow in a single weekend.

Come Wednesday, though, and the blizzard-cation was over. Lyra knows what it's like, back to early mornings and the daily grind and horrific DC traffic, now shoved into newly smaller roadways. When does this stuff melt back to manageable levels again?