Found Shoe Under the Snow!

On December 20th, 2006, one monster Colorado Snow Storm dumped over two feet of snow. Almost every single week after that, more snow came down - needless to say, instead of watching grass grow, it was watching snow fall! In late January (with tons of snow still around), my wife came home with a SuperSled from Costco. Needless to say, the boys wanted to take it for a spin on the front yard. Rather than tell them to put their boots on, we said go ahead with their shoes.

I kept unloading the car when, about 5 minutes later, I noticed Dirk walking out of the snow ... without his shoes on! I asked what happened, and he said his shoes came off. Knowing that yet another round of snow was forecast the next day, we started looking around ... and I even pulled out a shovel to dig. We found one shoe, but despite our best efforts, could not find the other. As predicted, more snow fell the next day; there was no hope to find that shoe! ;-)

Finally, almost a month later, we had a warm spell, and the snow melted. So we went on another rescue mission for the shoe ... and finally found it starting to poke through the melting snow.