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Friday 2/15. I measured another inch of snow this morning. Looks like we received a grand total of 50" in seven days during the storm. It's certainly good for the water table, but I am seriously getting tired of cleaning off roofs and paths, which are my projects again for today.
I shoveled off as much as I could reach of the top of the hen house and run. Then shoveled out the plow so we could move it out of the way for Larry to get the SnoCat in the yard. Also "plowed" with my legs and shoveled to get a path to the shop door. We got the remaining three cans of gas out. Going to really have to slow down our use of water as we are running low on gas for the generator we use for the well pump.
We had fog rolling in and out all day with the sun making a great effort to shine through it. Unfortunately that just seemed to create more fog.
We watched our two little does come for corn at 4:00 pm. One is a little bigger than the other, so I think it is a doe and her daughter.
It was another beautiful day with a high of 33 and no new snow.
Saturday 2/16. It is 20 this morning with a broken overcast and valley fog. The sides of the paths have sunk way down to a little over a foot, however the paths themselves are a least 1' to 2' high.
After lunch I raked off about 3' up on the back of the woodshed roof.
Our little herd of four deer came up to the corn twice today. One of them is not sharing and we think it is the buck who has lost his little antlers.
It was a beautiful day with a high of 32 and the sun was quite warm, but when the sun set the fog moved in with a vengeance. Quite the opposite of what usually happens.
On the radio this evening, Larry told us that they plan to drive up tomorrow in the SnoCat. We sure hope they make it without getting stuck.
Sunday 2/17. It is 26 and mostly cloudy this morning. I took another 2' off the back of the woodshed roof, while JB was making pumpkin bread. It smelled so good while baking and tastes almost like gingerbread.
Since we are having guests today, I cleaned up around the house a bit.
We are supposed to get snow today and it started falling at 1:00 pm, but only lasted about a half an hour.
Larry and Elsie arrived about 3:15 pm, just as the dogs and I were coming down from the south ridge on our walk. So good to see them! Got the groceries in (only four items) and chatted a bit, then settled down to play marbles (Chinese checkers). We played two long, intense games and ended up winning one each. Was we were playing, a heavy snow began to fall around 4:00 pm and the wind whipped up. It stopped just before they left at 6:00 pm. Our high for the day was 34, but the temperature had dropped to the low twenty's by the time they said goodbye.
Monday 2/18. It is 20 with clear skies on this President's Day morning. The forecast is for more snow for the rest of the month. We won't be getting down our road any time soon. Larry and Elsie plan to come back up in another couple weeks.
Thought for the day: There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. Bill Watterson
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