8:18 a.m.

You can barely see the retaining wall blocks around my cherry tree.

5 and 1/4 inches! And it was still snowing!
10:53 a.m.

Now you can hardly tell they are even blocks!

1:59 p.m.


Second, poor Kent is sick and stayed home from work. That gets half a hooray, because it is fun having him home but not fun for him to be sick. So...hoo!
And last but not least, our new dishwasher was installed today! Double hooray!! Isn't it bee-ute-tea-full?! I am almost sad I got all the dishes done, now I have to wait until dinner to use it!

Of course, being my life, it wasn't as simple as that. :) After the very kind and professional installer left I was so excited I loaded it up with soap and rinse agent to use on the breakfast dishes. As I was loading the dishes in the top rack I realized it was the wrong dishwasher. :/ We called him and he said he had just gotten to his next appointment so would it be ok if he switched them out after he was done at the other house. We said of course it would be ok. I felt bad I had put rinse agent in someone else's dishwasher but oh well. I did the breakfast dishes by hand while we waited for him to return and ran a cycle with clean dishes in it to clean out the soap (I didn't want to wash dirty dishes and take a chance of gumming up someone else's dishwasher). He came back, switched them out and now all is well! Apparently he had written down the wrong model from his paperwork and the fronts were almost identical so we didn't notice we had the wrong one until we opened it up.