So it started snowing about midnight Friday the
5th of December. I decided to work from home that day,
but
Jen went in. By the time she came home (6pm) we had around 8"
of heavy wet snow. This picture was
taken saturday morning, so
we got at least another 2" after she got home. The road in
front of our house
wasn't really plowed until saturday
afternoon, though it was still covered with snow and ice this
morning
(12/8/03).
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Snow falling Friday evening.
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Here's snow on the
railing on the steps on
the side of our
house. For reference the railing is
a
1" x 6".
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Looking over the
railing to the woods behind our house.
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We got the birdfeeder
up just in time for the storm. We had our very own bird metropolis
by Sunday
afternoon. We had nuthatches, downie
woodpeckers, red belly woodpeckers, chicadees, juncos,
titmice,
doves, crows, wrens cardinals and of course a few blue
jays. When it snows, the wildlife in the woods
behind our place is
easier to see. We saw a lot of deer and a few fox running on the
bank on the other side.
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Oh yeah, we had a few
squirrels too, though their days are numbered. We're getting
hot pepper powder to
put in the seed.
That should be fun to watch.
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CJ resting after an
afternoon of hiking/playing in the snow. That's when I should
have had the camera. The
woods and stream behind our house were
absolutely gorgous with the fresh fallen snow, but what isn't
gorgous after a fresh
fallen snow?
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Jen
was trying to tell Jeff and I the house was cold. She's always
making fun of me for wearing my hat
around the house. I think
now she understands. When we could finally go out on sunday, I
picked up some
plastic insulating wrap for the windows.
When I finally buy my own house, everyone will have to come
by
and check out my windows. I swear I'll have the best
insulated windows on the market. It seems like I've
been wrapping windows for the last 10 years of
my life.
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Here's Jeff trying to
figure out how they get the plastic to look so clear and smooth in
the pictures on the
box. We concluded windows in the pictures on
the box don't have plastic on them. It's a hoax. You can't do
it
without some kind of wrinkle. Though after all these
years, we are
getting
pretty close.
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With the windows
wrapped, jen still needs a blanket, hood and the dog to keep
warm.
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When people first find
out we don't have TV (we have a tv, you can see it in the room
behind me, but we don't
have cable) they ask, "what do you do
with all your time?" Usually it's not a problem. We're
at the gym, on
a ride, washing dishes, cooking, working on
bikes, etc. When you're snowed in for 3 days, you get
through
the normal routine pretty quick. As you see here, I
was left with combing the dog. Not brushing, which is
quicker and easier, but combing. Actually he needed a
combing. He has fur within his fur that the brush
just
wasn't getting too. I should have taken a picture of the melon size wad
of fur I combed out just
from his neck.
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Here's
some icicles growing on the front of our house. Those are
standard windows for size reference. I'm
hoping the ones off
the front porch reach the ground before it all melts away.
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Granted we only got around 8" of snow, so it wasn't like we
were stranded and there wasn't a state of
emergency. But it
was the first snow of the season, and a nice one at that.
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