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| Spike on his way to the corn. |
Friday 1/18. I was back in bed right after feeding the girls. JB fed the dogs for me.
When I got out of bed again at 10:00 am, the wind had died and the sky had become overcast. The valley fog didn't climb Up Here until almost sundown. Our high for the day was 38/40 and it was snowing when we went to bed.
It was a do-nothing day and by evening I was feeling almost human again.
Saturday 1/19. It is 30, partly cloudy and breezy this morning with valley fog and four inches of new snow. When I got up at about 5:00 am to let the dogs out, the almost-full moon was beginning to set. There were no clouds blocking it, so our whole landscape was lit up in moonlight.
First thing JB did was to trudge up to the panels to clear them off. This wet snow really sticks to them.
I am so glad that we are usually above the winter valley fog. All the sunshine they get Down There the rest of the year tries to make up for the grey winter, but dismal is dismal. We sure learned that last winter with all the fog we had.
The snow slipping off the roof right after a snowfall has become a common occurrence lately. With these warmer temperatures, it has no time to freeze and stick. Probably a good thing as these soft thuds are nothing compared to the roar of a foot of ice racing down the roof.
JB and I got the track back on the snow blower, but this snow is just too wet and heavy for it. It's really too heavy to shovel also, so we are just tramping down the paths with our boots. Works just fine.
We took the plow off the tractor so we could use the chain that was holding it on to perhaps attach a pallet to the back of Miss Kitty in order to tamp down the snow in the middle of the road as we drove. JB will try that tomorrow.
By the time for our afternoon walk, the breeze had worked its way up to a wind gusting to 19 mph. It was cold, but not really icy, which was surprising. Our high for the day was 38 again.
Sunday 1/20. It is 28 and overcast this morning with just a smattering of valley fog. In addition to our regular chores, I baked some peanut butter-chocolate chip cookies which we haven't had in a while.
JB tried to drive Miss Kitty around to the pallets behind the wood shed, but couldn't even get there in the deep snow. Guess we won't be going Down There for a while.
Our high for the day was 33 and the dark overcast stuck around until just after sundown when the stars came out and the moon began to rise. So we were able to watch the total lunar eclipse. Well, we didn't stand outside for three hours and watch, but we did check on it off and on. When we went outside around 7:00 pm there was an ol' hooty owl to the south of the house making his presence known very loudly.
Monday 1/21. It is 24/20 this morning and mostly cloudy. The full moon is setting over the Cascade mountains. Wow!
Thought for the day: I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing. Joan Winmill Brown
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