Daylight saving time arrived… but so did more snow… The snowbanks are quite high and I miss the radio antenna that allowed you to put a pink styrofoam ball on it to announce your presence at corners.
Rite of winter… here snowmachine deaths continue to mount as for most of the state its been the fourth snowiest winter since records were started.
We will find the Christmas lights in April but they will be frozen till May.
We do have migratory sandhill cranes that love farmers fields on ridgetops. Not here yet.
Almost all homes still have Chritstmas decorations up… With three to ten feet of snow or sort of snow ( its frozen solid and as slippery as get out) the Dead Wreath Society is doing well.
I just rediscovered a bent-over, sad little cholla that had been planted last summer. finally uncovered where enough sun and warmth melted the snow. My cheer upon seeing it was immediately shadowed by the thought, “Uh, oh, now where is the OTHER one that was planted at the same time?” Jackrabbits will chomp cacti, and deer might get desperate. I hope the other one is under the still-white hillock nearby.
No early spring here; just a never ending winter. With DST came six inches of snow and winds gusting to 45+. Power went out this morning (just as I was preheating my oven to bake bread) and like kayamedic, crazy high snowbanks because temps have been so cold. Maybe it will melt by May, but doubt if Lake Superior will.
@Rookie said:
No early spring here; just a never ending winter. With DST came six inches of snow and winds gusting to 45+. Power went out this morning (just as I was preheating my oven to bake bread) and like kayamedic, crazy high snowbanks because temps have been so cold. Maybe it will melt by May, but doubt if Lake Superior will.
Us too . Its still snowing.
@kayamedic said:
@Rookie said:
No early spring here; just a never ending winter. With DST came six inches of snow and winds gusting to 45+. Power went out this morning (just as I was preheating my oven to bake bread) and like kayamedic, crazy high snowbanks because temps have been so cold. Maybe it will melt by May, but doubt if Lake Superior will.Us too . Its still snowing.
Am guessing your temps have been 15-20 degrees below normal like ours.
Time to make some snow paint and brighten up the monochromatic landscape.
Edited to add it’s snowing again. I was so hoping for the simple pleasure of seeing no new snow on the driveway tomorrow morning. Bah humbug.
Nuther day— nuther few inches of snow. Picture from a couple of weeks ago. Might even be more now as we are getting a couple inches almost everyday.
All the white is very fresh and clean, but beneath the fresh white lies layers of ______________. We have 3 dogs, I leave it to you to fill in the blank.
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Well, darnit, winter barged back in. It left only a skiff of snow last night this time instead of a boatload. We keep getting persistent waves of wet storms.
This weather is making me downright edgy. I might as well go sit-on-top a bed of snails or maybe slap my scull.
Canoe fathom why?
While down heah, we have 3 days off from rain. But, it will be back for the weekend.
Paris perched upon the berg,
roared her electrostatic air,
“Sound the charge, let the hounds debarge,
I’m an icebreaker on a tear!”
Lake Erie apparently opened up this weekend. A few dozen fisherman had to be rescued from the flow.
@pikabike said:
Well, darnit, winter barged back in. It left only a skiff of snow last night this time instead of a boatload. We keep getting persistent waves of wet storms.This weather is making me downright edgy. I might as well go sit-on-top a bed of snails or maybe slap my scull.
Canoe fathom why?
If the forecast is right, a tsunami of snow is headed your way Wednesday. And if the track is correct, it will miss the Great Lakes (fingers crossed).
Been pouring rain all day, after a windy night. The temps drop sharply tomorrow, ARGH. Or should that be “Ark”?
Of course that is what happens. I washed hubby’s two vehicles at the car wash (he is out of town enjoying some much nicer weather!
Last Saturday on the Ortega River, NE Florida. Summer is coming. Those leaves are all a week or two old.
@Overstreet said:
Last Saturday on the Ortega River, NE Florida. Summer is coming. Those leaves are all a week or two old.
Beautiful!
@Overstreet said:
Last Saturday on the Ortega River, NE Florida. Summer is coming. Those leaves are all a week or two old.
Freshly hatched leaves have an amazing intensity. Not harsh, just very rightfully showing us they are out in force.
Gonna be rather wet here for awhile. Precipitation on and off with high 30s and mid 40s for a few days will really get the spring melt underway, and there is a lot of snow to melt. Everything is off the basement floor, floor has been vacuumed and squeegies are ready
Love the first blush of leaves in spring for their softness and color. Also the scent of emerging wild leeks and of course, hillsides covered with flowering trillium. Everything smells so wonderful and fresh! Maybe in eight weeks…
@Yooper16 No basement here; just a garage entry and garage, plus half the back porch filled with water when I got home. Lived here quite a few years and this is a first. It’s not just the snowbanks melting, but the snow on the roof as well. Yikes!
Spent 2.5 hours using a WaterBug pump to clear it, then another hour of pumping later on. It will be flooded again in the morning and just hope I can get home in time to pump out again tomorrow before the temps drop and it freezes.
I appreciate your persistence and I’m really glad I don’t live there.
@string said:
I appreciate your persistence and I’m really glad I don’t live there.
I keep telling myself it builds character.
Would a leaf blower blow some of the water away?