Keoni: There should be Olympic snow-shoveling competitions.

Which snow layer we are working on is no longer discernible. Our one-way driveway challenges us. We have to plan. You could say that brings us together, too. There are choices to make: pull in front forward and next trip back out onto Ridge Road; or, vice versa. Extreme backing. Either way involves reverse gear out onto the road, and if you are the lucky one, your car is closest to Ridge Road and you don't have to move the other car first before you can get out.

So far, we can see over the piles of snow at the driveway entrance/exit.

Snow plow going by. This isn't the big momma though; that one is scary. 

I carry around a "snow brush" in my car. An object I never knew existed until a couple months ago. I've used it lots.

John and Keoni digging out John's car.

Keoni hurls it onto the flower garden.

After this winter Keoni may never want a car, even though he is a teenager.

Wendy joining the effort. She already cleared the way in front of the barn stall doors.

The two cars readied for the day's juggling.

In the afternoon, another neighbor came with his tractor and blade. John moved the cars to the neighbor's drive and the neighbor had our driveway cleared in no time. Plus, he cleared out the turn-around area in front of Wendy's truck at the barn. We have great neighbors helping our Southwestern kids make their winter transitions.

Aidan found other uses for frozen natural phenomenon...

Look what I found, Grandma Judy.

A light saber!

Aidan found many ways to hurl himself into snow banks. His former snowmen became icemen. He hated yesterday's snow day caused missing out on the fifth grade Valentine's celebration which can't be rescheduled we learned until sometime in March. So, his Valentine box entry for the competition sits in the music room along with a pile of Valentines for his classmates. Luckily, his disappointment was diverted since I revealed a heart-shaped cake pan, cake mix and icings that I'd hidden to make for a family Valentine. I gave all to him; then, stood out of the way as he made the cake and decorated with scarcely any input from me.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY a day late.