No Snow adventures yesterday. I did not hurt myself wallering around in the snow. Someone asked if I was making butt angels…maybe so.
Another Winter Storm is headed our way. I am thrilled.
Little June and sparkly snow in late afternoon.
Since it is going to snow I took a photo of the snowstick just before I left for Bingo with my Dad. We are a pathetic couple of losers. We were one number away from a Bingo 39 times in 35 games. It made for an exciting night but a win would have been nice. Oh well we will try again next week. It is kind of nice that I can drive into town to get my Dad in the daylight. His hand is healing nicely and he no longer wears a bandage.
We will hunker down at home for the weekend storm….we can always hope that it will go south of us.
Far Side
The wind blew. It blew so hard an inch of snow was moved from the snowstick. It was a blizzard.
We heard the driveways were all blocked by drifts and local roads were one lane covered by drifts…big ole 4 wheel drive trucks like my other baby brother has made it through…but when he got to the highway visibility was zero…so he came back home and stopped to tell us about it.
Back here in the woods the snow moved around and the tree tops were in motion all day long.
This is a view of little June behind big June. The old grain bin looks like it is wearing a cap.
I used the power shovel once during the day to clear off the walk in front of the house.
I knitted and did some indexing at Family Search. Far Guy worked on a woodcarving.
We cooked supper for my other baby brother and his bride…BBQ ribs, cooked carrots and french fries in the air fryer. Since they live next door they didn’t have to venture out too far. We really like our air fryer…makes great homemade french fries! My other baby brother thought so too. We have a french fry cutter that makes short work of a potato with the skin on…then they are air dried a bit and put in a bowl with about a half of a teaspoon of olive oil before going into the air fryer for about 20 minutes.
Far Side
The snow record in our yard has been tied. Will we set a new record? …have to wait and see.
I fed the birds and shoveled snow. We go to the Tranfer Station with our garbage every three weeks. Yesterday was the day. The roads were slippery.
After I filled the thistle feeders a whole swarm of Pine Siskens came into the yard…they were chirping happily.
This spot was right ouside our door. It seems we have a watch rabbit that sat here long enough to melt snow.
The snow is light and fluffy for the most part, it will blow around today as we have a blizzard warning.
Yesterday we entertained ourselves for a while watching unique snow removal tools that were used on roofs…ropes, wires and Minnesnowta Roof Razor. Fun videos to watch. Snow on top of roofs is beginning to be concerning for many home owners, in town it costs $385 to have your roof cleared. There was an ad up that said $5 a square foot, boy did he get some flack. We have steel roofs and sooner or later it will slide right off.
Far Side
It snowed again…imagine that. Big huge flakes.
Enough already! I went to the couch to hibernate…how do bears do it anyways…I had to get up to pee….and then the phone rang…so hibernation was not possible. Back to knitting and woodcarving and looking out the window.
The local television channels beep beep beep weather announcements don’t even make us pay attention anymore. Seems all of February has been bad weather announcements.
Far Side
Walk
It snows every two or three days. I had just caught up with snow removal before it started again.
21 inches at the snowstick Feb 20 2019
The birds keep us busy filling the feeders. The Pine Siskins come in great numbers to the feeders.
I am drawing and knitting and Far Guy is woodcarving.
We are both tired of snow, but we are thankful that we don’t live in “the cities” …seems they got dumped on again. We are also thankful that we don’t have to go out in the worst of it. More snow is forecast for Saturday.
Far Side
It was –36 F very early Saturday morning, then it warmed up to about –2F. A heat wave.
The snow blew around and settled, we have 20 inches now at the snowstick.
I shoveled by the garage yesterday…a little at a time.
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day we put up a new flag. Soon we will make our annual trip to read cards in the store and then put them back…we might stroll by the chocolate and flowers too!
Saturday we went out for a late lunch/early supper and recycled plastic and paper along the way.
Nothing much was accomplished…dishes, laundry…the usual….and a nap.
Far Side
I moved some snow yesterday to make room for more that is forecast to blanket our area.
Far Guy bought a power snow shovel, it is electric and works great to move snow! It blows the snow about twenty feet! Much easier on my shoulders than a regular shovel. I still need to use the ol’ scoop shovel in some areas.
The best thing since sliced bread.
I keep trying to clear half the patio and a path to the bird feeders. The other half of the patio will just have to melt…it got ahead of me while we were gone to Hawaii. I suppose the big hard on shoulders snow blower would do a good job on it but I just don’t have the energy to man handle that snowblower.
We are supposed to get 12 plus inches of new snow…we will see. We are having a blizzard today. 12 more inches could be a snowstick record.
We are staying busy. Far Guy has been woodcarving and walking inside the house…round and round he goes. I am working on a couple of requested crochet projects.
Far Guy says “It’s time to wave winter goodbye and guess which finger I’ll be using?”
He gets irritated with me when I walk to the kitchen window and say “It’s snowing again or the temperature is____!”
Far Side
COLD. It was really cold Wednesday morning.
The wind chill in the nearby village of Ponsford was –66 BELOW.
We stayed inside all day. I didn’t even venture out for a photo….our big old outside thermometer is broken…the hand must have freeze dried and fell off.
There was no mail, no school and many businesses were closed including the Clinic.
I heard on the National News that you could freeze your eyeballs. I laughed…certainly there would be lots of Minnesota people wandering around blind. Body heat must protect your eyeballs. Animals that are stuck outside in the weather may get real frosty eyelashes…but their eyeballs seem just fine. However I have seen dead fish with frozen eyeballs!
If you go outside without the proper clothing you can get mighty cold. You might even wish you were someplace else.
We have 15 inches of snow at the snow stick.
We will be in the high 20’s above zero on Saturday something to look forward to! After that we have more winter weather headed our way.
Far Side
It remains cold here and they say we are supposed to have some nasty winter weather later today. Uffda.
Art in the snow.
We have 12 inches of snow at the snowstick.
We stay busy and out of trouble.
Far Side
