ichi-SNOW-miya

Even though the first official snow was about two weeks ago, this weekend brought our first layer to actually stick around more than a few hours. We have a good four or five inches as I type and it's still coming down. Looks like this might be here for a while. Pretty funny how the mountain elevation affects with the snow. Our friend a few minutes north has several more inches than we do, the town 20 minutes south barely has a light brushing, and further south I don't think it's snowed at all yet.

I also thought this was pretty funny. Seems our neighbor Yajima shoveled and decided to play a little joke on our other neighbor Kishine: