Holiday Adventures Part 9 – Finally home!

On January 6 we drove the rest of the way home to Deurne. It had been a great vacation, but it was good to be home.

We were surprised to come home to five inches of snow!
Before we moved here, Josh told me (repeatedly) “it doesn’t snow in Holland, or when it does it doesn’t stay for more than a day.” I no longer believe that! It’s true that it doesn’t snow often, so roads don’t get cleared effectively and everything turns into a slushy mess. We don’t own a snow shovel, and it looks like none of our neighbors do, either.

This is our back garden, with the fishpond somewhere underneath the snow. It took some work to melt a hole in the pond to allow for gas exchange, as the ice was six inches thick.
I am used to doing all my errands by bicycle, but I’m scared to bike through the thick slush. I’ve already discovered that biking on ice doesn’t work. The snow cramps my style! But, it is beautiful.

Josh is busy at work again, and it only took me one day of running the washing machine continually to get through all 18 days of laundry. It’s good to be back to normal life.