November 22, 2003

• Snow Pics

  
  

  This morning hotvette101 asked for a snow pic.  Dontcha know, around here you usually get about five times as much as you ask for.

  
  

  This one is our place with the cars in the driveway  The little unoccupied cabin beside our trailer is on the left and that bright white roughly rectangular thing below and just left of center frame there is the snow cap on the front of the trailer.  This shot is also the best one of the berm along the road, thrown up by the snowplow when it went by about eleven PM last night.

  
  

  This is how it is now.  Doug was out there off and on through the night (he’s back around to night shift again after his periodic diurnal phase) scraping the berm away with our nifty ergonomic snow pusher (sticking upright in the berm between Streak Subaru (right) and Roger Dodge (left) above.  I asked when I got up this morning if he had gotten the berm shoveled, and he said, “Yes, but we’ll have to wait ’til daylight to see if I got it all.”  He did get all of the deep berm thrown up by the grader, but hasn’t gotten the snow immediately around the cars.  That’s just as well, since it would have to be shoveled again after the snow is brushed off the cars, eh?

  
  

  

  
  

  Speaking of tools, leafylady asked about the uses we have for our ice-chipping Mutt®.  Snow does, as she suggested, thaw and refreeze  into slick masses in places such as our doorstep.  One of the places we often use the Mutt is at the spring.  We cut steps into the ice so we can get up and down the steep slope.  Now there are steps there, but they will become full of snow and covered with ice and will need to be cleared.

  
  

  Another icy problem around our door originates with the picturesque icicles that form there when snow on the roof melts from the heat that escapes, then drips and freezes.  I didn’t take any pics of them because Doug broke them off during all his in-and-outing last night.  They’re dangerous, and we try to keep them knocked down as soon as they form.  The Mutt is handy for that, and for chipping off the stalagmites that form on the porch under the hanging stalactites.

  
  

  

  
  

  That last shot above shows another good view of the berm the grader left.  Before the grader came by, we hadn’t even considered going anywhere.  By the time we got home Thursday night the snow was deep enough to make the going rough.  Before it stopped falling, going was impossible.  Then after the grader pushed the berm up behind our cars, we certainly were not going anywhere until we shoveled it out.   We don’t have anyplace important to go today or tomorrow, so there will be plenty of time to finish the shoveling.

  
  

  The shot above on the left shows the rising sun, coming up in the southeast.  This time next month it will be rising more south than east.  That mound of snow visible in the lower left corner of this shot is one of the cars in the driveway, and the dark objects in the disturbed snow in the lower right are Doug’s tools, the maul and axes.  That’s his chopping block area next to that big tree.

  
  

  

  
  

  So that’s it for the documentary photos.  I’ll throw in a scenic one for free.  This is my photogenic favorite grove of trees, right across the street from our driveway.  There’s a trail through that grove, leading over to the muskeg out of frame on the right.  Once that snow gets packed down, maybe I’ll risk having some of that snow drop down my neck, and go out and get some shots of the muskeg… perhaps if there’s a colorful sunrise….

  
  

  

  
  

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