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| Taking a well-deserved nap. |
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| If only we could get Dinga to clean up her mess. |
Wednesday 2/19. When JB took the dogs on their morning walk, his foot prints from his 7:00 am foray to the panels had almost been erased. Fortunately he had driven MAX up and around the south ridge again yesterday, so he had slight indentations to show him just where to walk without sinking to his knees. When the dogs stepped off the tracks, about all that was visible was their head and tails.
I saw a remote-controlled truck with a snow plow on-line that someone was using to clear the snow off their deck. Now, that's what I need!
We rescheduled JB's nephew's visit for mid-March, depending upon Mother Nature's approval.
I took a break from the more serious tomes, and read Janet Evanovich's Sizzling Sixteen. Always a hoot!
Our frog was serenading us today. I am amazing that he is still awake in all this cold weather, especially since we put in the vents under the house.
The snow stopped falling about 11:30 am when the sun and wind finally chased the clouds away, and then they both stayed around to gloat. For today's laundry, I washed my delicates in my hand washer, then just put them in the washing machine for a rinse and spin.
After lunch JB planned to drive MAX down to groom the road again, but got only about 100' down the driveway before realizing he had a broken axle. Yesterday it sounded like the chain was loose and he was supposed to tighten it before leaving. . . Well, so much for dozing while watching the snow fall. Thank goodness it wasn't snowing or blowing today. He drove his Jeep down to MAX, thinking he could pull MAX up to the parking place, but that did not work out. So we just took the tires and one track off, which was a big project, having to take the big pieces of wood and other necessary items down to MAX when we jack him up, etc. Then when JB tried to back his Jeep back up to it's parking spot, he could only get it up half-way because going back up, gravity was working against him. Sometimes I feel like we are two of the three stooges.
We had begun re-watching season one of Downton Abbey last night and continued tonight. Something relaxing and soothing.
Thursday 2/20. It was 21 with a light overcast and very windy when we got up. Some of the paths are just small indentations in the otherwise flat and windswept landscape. I thought for sure MAX would be just a big, white mound in the road, but it is a little sheltered from the wind where he is parked. The tarp is still on him, but there is no way we will be working on him unless the wind lets up, which it did not do all day. I can only imagine how the snow must be drifting on the road. Snow is even blowing through the slats in the back of the wood shed, and drifting in there!
Instead, we dug out JB's Jeep and he was finally able to back it into the parking place. A very short sentence, but a long, arduous project. I brought in firewood and JB shoveled the path to the battery shed. Then, after lunch, he and the dogs took a nap while I started a new book and defrosted the refrigerator. Being housebound so much, we are drawing up plans for our main summer project: a shed for the tractor and in which to work on MAX.
I really am getting so tired of the wind. Never even in Chicago have I experienced so many days of wind, and today it is not merely gusting, but very strong and sustained. Enough already!!
JB had wanted to go Down There on Sunday to attend the Sportsman's Show with Larry, but I'm not sure that is going to happen unless there is no wind tomorrow and Saturday. No need to go down for supplies. Being low on peanut M&M's does not really constitute an emergency.
Friday 2/21. It is 21, clear and blessedly quiet this morning. The snow is covered with pine and fir needles and cones, and small branches. It looks as though some of the shoveled paths had never existed, and the snow is half-way up the garden fence. But it is quiet.
Thought for the day: I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. Thomas Jefferson
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