I'm not complaining

Really.

Just commenting.

As anyone who's been paying attention knows, we're having a record year. They're harkening back to the early 80s for comparisons and saying that we probably even beating those records.

We're skiing stuff that you never ski. Some of the local hard corps have even skied Red Mountain which is south facing and too sun beaten to hold enough snow to ski. But this year, they're finding six foot stashes.

The other day, some guy feel into an abandoned mine (admittedly roped off) in an area of the Mine Dumps on Aspen Mountain that never gets skied.

The City of Aspen has run out of places to put all the snow they're clearing from the streets. This in a city with a lot of experience in clearing and storing snow.

And Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow today.

It's epic. And fabulous.

But,

We've lived in our house for just over 5 years now. Obviously, since this is the biggest snow year since the early 80s or beyond, this is the biggest snow year since we've owned our house.

We had heard from our neighbors that some of them had roof leakage problems. We always considered ourselves lucky since we didn't seem to suffer the same fate.

Well, not so fast. It took an epic snow year but we've discovered our roof leaks. We no longer feel left out of this cohort of which I'd rather not be a member.

Can you say ice dams? This is why Steve is currently up a ladder in the dark clearing snow off the lower roofs. Hopefully, this will solve our problem.

Do you think I'm being overly optimistic?