Island Park Idaho

Yep.  That’s what it is.  It sarted this morning as snow / sleet and changed to rain as the day wore on.  Now, rain might not be unusual in later March, or early April, but February?!?!?  I’m not sure what to think.  I guess if you’re a farmer you say, “Great!  There’s probably more moisture in that snow than there is in a foot of snow.  If, like those of us who live and visit here, you’re a snowmobiler, you say, “What in the world?  Rain is for July.  We want snow — and lots of it!”

This has been an odd winter in every way.  We never really got the bitter cold.  We never really got as much snow as we’d have liked.  We never never got a lot of things this year.  But what we did get is 6 more months in paradise.  It’s been a slow travel year (with the economy and all the ugliness that goes with that) and as a result, we’ve had the whole place practically to ourselves.  I can’t help but feel like Bre’r Rabbit after he’d been thrown in the briar patch.