February 19, 2012



Looking into the canyon to the south of us
on Thursday




JB got the snow blower running!


Fog!  All day Friday.  By the time we took our daily walk something frozen was falling - very tiny frozen crystals you could hardly see but heavier than snow flakes and falling very fast.  As we returned to the house from our walk, it had turned to snow and was falling more softly.  By 5:00 pm the predicted storm had developed a few hours early.  The wind picked up around 8:30 pm and was noisy most of the night.  But we only received about 2" by morning.  As soon as he made the coffee, JB bundled up to go scrape the solar panels.  Now that they are tilted up at more of an angle, the snow and ice build up on them more quickly.

There was no fog yesterday, but it snowed lightly off and on all day.  Didn't get the worst of it as we seemed to be on the storm's eastern edge.  We even got some sun breaks in the afternoon.  JB was actually able to get the snow blower going and cleared our pathways before lunch.  In the afternoon he used MAX to pack down the driveway and road to and around the south ridge.  Then he drove down our road to the main canyon road to pack it down.  Dinga and I stayed home while Jesse went with JB.

Then he made pork sausage!  He ground up some boneless country ribs and added seasonings.  We are going to have some for breakfast this morning.  I didn't do nearly as much as JB did yesterday.  Just watching him made me tired. . .

I defrosted both the refrigerator and freezer on Friday.  Quite the project!  I do the freezer about every fourth time I do the fridge.  Turns out to be every five or six weeks or so.  Other than that, I am busy reading the first ten books in Patterson's Women's Murder Club series.  Fun, light reading.

I have mentioned how quiet it is Up Here in the winter with the snow all around.  But what drives it home is laundry days when I finally turn off the generator, then the water and transformer.  The transformer makes a light background buzz that you don't really notice until it is turned off.  Then the silence becomes very obvious.  A loud pounding in your ears.  And you can almost hear your thoughts.

Thought for the day:  We are all travellers on the road to Joy; using this land of time and space to find our way back Home.  Wild Rose