March 22, 2017 A Cold, Grey Start To Spring

Snow slipping off the
solar panels Tuesday morning.

I believe we are still in
for more snow.

Monday 3/20. The beautiful weekend weather turned out to be just a tease, as the first day of Spring was very grey with a high of only 38.  A few occasional snow flakes drifted down during the afternoon until about 4:00 pm when it seriously began to fall and continued to do so most of the night.

Lots of dishes and laundry to do.  Funny how they pile up, no matter where you live.

I sure enjoy watching the birds flit about outside.  Mostly juncos right now.  We sure miss and their songs them during the winter.

We did have a bright spot during the day though.  Larry drove up on his 4X4 ATV in the early afternoon to bring us our mail and stayed for a nice visit.  He said he was able to get up our road because his vehicle is so light, but he's pretty sure Miss Kitty wouldn't make it yet.  There are still places where the snow is two and three feet deep.

Since finishing the first season of Burn Notice, we are watching the second season of Arrow which our son sent to us.  We could easily binge on that.

Tuesday 3/21. We slept in this morning til eight, after being up several times with the dogs during the night.  There was some critter out there that they just had to check on.  At 8:00 am the snow was still coming down.  When I finally got up to the panels to clean them off about 45 minutes later, I measured 2" of new snow.  So everything is white again.  As the saying goes: Winter isn't over til there is snow on the dogwood blossoms.

The snow finally stopped around 10:00 am.  We were able to go on our morning walk, but it was raining on and off most of the afternoon.  And when the rain stopped, the fog would move in.  Our high for the day was just 34, but much of the dirt is visible again.  Only now it is mud.

With all the rain and snow that is falling in north Idaho, they are experiencing severe mudslides on some of the main highways.  Randy can get out now by driving his side-by-side down to his car, but their road is still pretty dicey.

JB's ankle is still swollen and giving him fits, but seems to be a little better than yesterday.  

Wednesday 3/21. It is 30 and with mostly clear skies and valley fog this morning.  It will be nice to see the sun

Thought for the day: Don't tell God how big your problems are.  Tell your problems how big your God is.  Guideposts, April 2017, Pg. 14