Spring Snow

We didn't play Ultimate on Wednesday night, the fields were too wet to play on. I wasn't too enthused about playing in the rain/snow when temperatures were around 35, add to that a few layers of mud on my shirt and I would have been a miserable mess.

We awoke Thursday morning to several inches of snow on the mountains around Missoula. Here's the mountain above our house, covered in snow. You can see the snow line on the left side of the picture, there's no hill blocking the view, the snow just ends and the rain began at that elevation. The news reported that Glacier National Park received 15 inches of snow and northeast of Missoula received 5 inches! Glacier was just starting to plow roads to attempt to repair the mountain roads that were washed away, looks like they will be plowing snow awhile longer. The weekend weather looks to improve though, we are looking towards the 60's for the next few days and possibly 70's early next week. They plants and trees would sure enjoy some warmer weather.

Yesterday, Laura and I did some shopping. We needed to make a trip to Costco to stock up on our food supply and made a trip past JCPenney to check out the sales we've been hearing about. The sales weren't very good, but the clearance racks had some excellent deals! I picked up two shirts for $6 and Laura bought two pairs of jeans and a shirt for $12. Don't believe me? Check out the receipt - no wait, check out the 'Total Savings!' $142.13! I guess that's a pretty good way to save some money.

Tonight we are thinking of heading to the movies. The University has a movie theater and they play movies at reduced prices for students. The shows tonight are Happy Feet and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. So we have that option if we feel like sitting around and watching movies. As far as the weekend goes, I don't know what the plans are. We had thought about doing some more geocaching and trying a few hikes at lower elevation, but the snow that hit on Wednesday might be a real big problem anywhere we go. Then again, if temperatures can reach into the 60's then we might have a chance to melt some snow and still get a hike in.

Have a great weekend! Until again

-=Nolan=-