Thank you for your kind post. Yes, it was nice to get away for a while and to visit my family. The baby was given a nice, short Scandinavian name.
I hope for you that you will have a dusting of snow at Christmas. Here it has been snowing quite a lot. To start with it was wet but today it was very dry so I could see all the different snow crystal formations. It is truly amazing how filigree they are and how much they all vary in pattern.
Like you I don't like the snow. It is most annoying when I stay at my sisters for a day or two, and when I want to drive home I have to dig out my car first! Apparently, we are having a record-like amount of snow at the moment, and in some neighbouring countries they even had 1 -2 metres snowfall in a very short time. At least I don't live in the mountains.
Anyway, I wish you a nice week-end and not too much snow. Take care.