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| 5+ inches of snow Saturday morning. |
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| JB plowing the road around the south ridge. |
Friday 11/21. Disappointment set in as we realized it would not be prudent to take our trip tomorrow. Not because we are so reluctant to cross the passes in the snow, but because of the time involved. We wouldn't be home til after midnight, and that is just too long of a day.
I have given up trying entice the girls into eating the alfalfa pellets in any form. So I am going to fill their leaky water pan with pellets and take it up the east ridge near one of the major deer trails. Hopefully they will find and eat it.
Fog crept up from Down There mid morning and the temperature fell a couple degrees. While JB and the dogs were on their morning walk, some sort of frozen moisture began to fall, maybe snow trying to get through the fog. Snow flakes were in the mix by 12:30 pm off and on. Now more, now less. When I went out to feed the girls their heated cabbage and bring in fire wood around 1:00 pm, tiny ice crystals were falling. Even with such a light snow covering, my firewood sled glides much more quickly over the ground, racing me to the porch.
By 1:30 pm some serious snow was falling, and by our afternoon walk, we stepped out into 2" of it. Arriving back at the house, all four of us were almost as white as the ground.
JB got Dinga's favorite toy out after dinner - the snow blower. It was still snowing but he wanted to get a jump on clearing the paths since we now had 4" of snow. Dinga was ecstatic. This is her favorite season of the year and the snow is her playground. She makes snow angels everywhere and dances on her hind legs trying to catch the snow that the snow blower is throwing. After a few minutes outside, Jesse comes in and just watches from the front door.
Saturday 11/22. We awoke to 33 degrees, a partly cloudy sky and more than 5" of snow. The wind had blown all night, gusting to 29 mph, but it hadn't completely obliterated the paths that JB cleared last night. I got up at 2:00 am, but it was still so warm inside that I didn't put in another fire.
No bananas for the girls' oatmeal this morning and Blondie was completely miffed. Betty is still a little leery of warm food, but Belinda believes that food is food, and digs right in.
We put the snow plow on Miss Kitty and JB plowed our roads around the house and south ridge to get a feel for it. Seems like he learned very quickly.
By 10:30 am the temperature had risen to 37 and there was a wall of some sort of precipitation on its way to us from the west. That wall hadn't arrived by early afternoon. The sky was mostly blue and the wind had picked back up. JB drove Miss Kitty down to the hair pin corner to plow. The u-bolt holding the cable on the winch broke on his way back up the driveway and he had to tie the cable in a knot to hold the plow up. We got it fixed, but then JB decided to use the snow blower on the paths instead of going back down to plow.
Our high for the day was 39 and no precipitation reached us today. It all went to the north.
Sunday 11/23. It was 37 and overcast with a wind gusting to 21 this morning. Tiny snowflakes began to fall and be blown about a little after 9:00 am, but we were on the southern edge of the storm and just got it in fits and starts, while the sun was almost able to break through the clouds to the south.
I had a nice long talk with Sandy this morning. She still has hummingbirds coming to her feeders. . .
JB tried the canned Yoders bacon with our eggs and hash browns for breakfast this morning. That is one of the long-term storage items we have on hand but have never eaten. It is sliced paper thin but is very good. Unfortunately, because it is so thin, there is no "bacon juice" left over for the dogs.
JB left in Miss Kitty a little before 11:00 am to plow our road down to the main canyon road, a little less than two miles. It took him about 45 minutes to get there and about the same coming back.
It is really a good thing that our cold season began with an arctic blast because now winter temperatures will seem pleasant. Oh, look! It's 28 outside - how nice!
A little after lunch, JB laid down for a nap and I went up to the loft to work on our Christmas card. I managed to get it designed, and printed out a first draft. I have never worked on this new Word program, but I love it because it has a photo-shop-like program right in it. And it is fairly easy to learn. That is saying a lot, because my tolerance for computer issues is nil.
While I was at the computer, a blizzard blew in for about an hour, dropping at least 3/4" of very wet snow and plastering the west side of all the trees. The temperature finally fell to 32. Our high for the day was 39, but I'm sure that was only for a few moments.
I am going Down There tomorrow for groceries, mail and to run some errands. Will be driving JB's Wrangler as it handles much better in the snow.
Larry and Elsie have invited us to Thanksgiving Dinner, which I was so hoping they would do. We are really looking forward to Thursday.
Monday 11/24. It is 31 and overcast this morning. Another storm is due in this evening, which is why I am going Down There today.
Thought for the day: Patience is also a form of action. Auguste Rodin
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