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| On Monday's drive in MAX. |
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| Tiny tracks coming out of a hole on the side of the drive. |
Monday 12/19. JB measured 2" of new snow when he trudged up to clean off the solar panels this morning. The light breeze began growing into a wind, flinging snow bombs and creating white-outs. It also blew away some of the clouds and the pattern continued with sunshine by mid morning.
We received our first issue of National Geographic's History magazine on Saturday and I am still reading it. Every word on every page. It is as least as interesting as Archaeology magazine. Wonderful!
JB drove MAX, with me on the passenger side, down to the main canyon road to groom and pack down the snow. It was a very pleasant ride, with no wind on that side of the mountain. But it had obviously been windy at some point as most of the road had been snow bombed. Either that or Bigfoot and his family had been out and about. As has become the norm, we saw the tracks of one cat going down the road, and the tracks of several deer.
Over the weekend, Larry and Elsie caught sight of two bobcats and one cougar near their place.
Our high for the day was 34, and with the temperature that high, the snow and ice began to slip off our roof in loud crashes. Between the noise of the wind and the crashing snow, Dinga was in quite a state.
And Donald Trump is now officially the President-elect. . .
Tuesday 12/20. It was 33 with a wind gusting to 19 mph this morning. We received another 2" of snow over night. Between 8:30 am and 10:00 am, two small storm cells moved through, but then, just this side of the mountains, the clouds soon moved a little to the south and way to the north, and we had sunshine. But the wind stuck around all day, gusting up to 28 mph.
I figured it was a good morning to catch up on the filing, and start cleaning up my craft area. I also finally got out on the deck and shoveled off about 1/3 of it.
After lunch we were going to drive MAX down the road to do some more grooming as the wind was sculpting up here and we wanted to be sure it wasn't causing drifts on the road. However, as JB was backing MAX out, the chain came off. . . Guess we didn't get that fixed after all. No problem, we just took Miss Kitty instead. She did just fine, even through the aspen where someone had driven up and back down without chains. What a mess!
On our afternoon walk, I saw tiny tracks crossing our road up to the south ridge. It looks as though a mouse or ground squirrel came out of a hole on one side of the drive and went into a hole on the other. So cute!
Our high was 34 again, but with the wind chill, nothing is even beginning to melt except a little on the porch. The snow is getting wetter though, and sinking down a bit.
Google states that today is the first day of winter, but the Farmer's Almanac and calendar state that it is tomorrow. Whatever. Winter started Up Here a month ago.
Wednesday 12/21. It is 26 and clear this morning. JB is going Down There. It seems he did not finish he Christmas shopping after all.
Thought for the day: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. . . including you. Anne Lamott
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