December 3, 2018 SNOW!

Along the main canyon road
on Saturday. . .

. . . and at Rose Camp.

JB & Dinga clearing pathways.

Friday 11/30. We soon saw blue sky and sunshine this morning and had received just a trace of snow during the night.

Again, I worked on Christmas gifts and cards.  After lunch I brought in the wood while JB got out the chains for Miss Kitty and uncovered her.  We just put on the front ones as the back tires are too big for the chains we have.  Had all summer to get extensions for them.  Seems like I didn't do a lot of things I should have this summer. . .

It was a gorgeous day, even with the 9-mph breeze.  I did spend a lot of time inside, but the sun managed to shine in very nicely.  Our high for the day was 38.

Saturday 12/1. We woke up to a temp of 30/29, 4" of snow and it's still coming down.  We really have to get JB's Jeep down to Larry and Elsie's today for the winter, so we left at 10:00 am with JB driving his Jeep and me following in Miss Kitty.  Since we were both going down that far anyway, we drove into town to pick up packages at the UPS store, buy some newspapers, and a windshield wiper for Miss Kitty.  (Something else I should have done during the summer.)
We also stopped in at the Gridders' to return some movies and loan them some.

It was raining and 40 in town.  Looks like the snow just came down to about 1500 feet.  By the time we arrived back home at 12:45 pm, we had 7" of snow.  By 3:00 pm, it was 9" and still snowing hard.  I think November saved up most of its snow and pushed it into December!  Our high for the day was 28.

We watched the first two episodes of Godless on my tablet this evening.  Good but very dark.  As we were getting ready for bed about 10:00, part of the snow from the north side of the roof came down with a mighty roar.  Dinga does not like that at all, and it can make me jump, too.

Sunday 12/2. It is 28 and overcast this morning and we now have received 11-1/2" of snow in the past 30 hours or so.  The weather forecast calls for no precipitation for the rest of the week.  Of course, snowflakes appeared from the sky a little after 9:00 am.  Not much, but just enough to send a raspberry to the weather people.  During the day we had a couple more short flurries pass through.

While I was finishing up reading the Sunday paper that I saved from yesterday, JB and Dinga trudged up to clean off the panels.  Done with the paper and finally dressed, I went out to bring in the wood, making a deep channel through the snow with the sled.

After lunch, JB got the snow-thrower out, much to Dinga's delight, and spent a lot of time clearing the pathways we need.  Dinga chased the blown snow for a little while, but soon tired out.  So them she just followed right behind JB, protecting him from any critters that might appear.  While they were busy with that project, I continued to make Christmas gifts, wrap them, and package them for mailing.  Still have the cards to do.  And decorations to put up.

By 1:00 pm we could see some patches of blue sky, but the sun never found any to shine through.  Our high for the day was 32, and the snow continued to slide noisily off the roof. 

Monday 12/3. It is 20 and overcast this morning.  The weatherman was certainly correct about the cold moving in.

Thought for the day: The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.  Henry David Thoreau