It took one day to take the tree down, and two days to get it all chopped up and removed. It looks so bare without the tree, it really took up a lot of space. The magpies and red squirrels are quite put out with us. This was a major part of the squirrel freeway, and the magpies spent a lot of time squawking and waiting to be fed in that tree. 
While we were waiting to get the stump ground we got snow.
Twenty-nine inches of snow fell in two days. It was hard to do anything other than wander from window to window watching those huge flakes fall straight down.
This was one of the few storms that come across the Great Salt Lake, resulting in a huge dump of lake effect snow. Not realizing how much we were going to get, we didn't start shoveling out until the second day, and by then it was so high, it was really hard. Jack had to plow a path out to my shop for me.
But this is Utah, and after the second day the sun came out and the snow began to melt very quickly. All 29 inches were gone in four days, but it sure was pretty while it lasted. In the two pictures below, you are looking at the same tree--just two days apart.
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Along with all the snow, the birds showed up in big numbers at our feeders. We saw birds that had not before been guests here. It was great! And some of them we haven't seen since, but I'm sure they'll be back with the next snow. We were thrilled to see quite a few Steller's Jays. With their crested heads, they look very pterodactyl-ish to me. We also had the first evening grosbeaks show up. I don't know if they were migrating south, or just came down from the hills, but they ate a lot for two days, and we haven't seen them since.
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