Snowpocalypse 2: Electric Boogaloo
Today was partially spent digging out of over 2 feet of Mother Nature's dandruff. This just might be a record setting snowfall for the area. It was not easy getting started, as Jeff and I shoveled and trudged our way around to get to the firewood and all the way to the garage, where I keep By-Tor the Snowblower. Kodi, despite is small Poweranian stature, loved the snow, despite how deep it is. It was fun dropping him into the deep stuff, with a muted "foop" he would vanish, then start jumping up trying to plow his way through. He would follow us in our footsteps as good as he could, enjoying every minute of it all. We were all dug out after a couple hours work. There was one casualty so far due to the snow, one of my 40ft blue spruces toppled to the ground from the lopsided weight. I expect a lot of broken branches and ruined shrubs as well. but the stuff is too deep. We tried our best to dig out or unburden some of the trees and shrubs, but this snowfall is going to be too much for some of the trees to handle.
Snow for me is almost always beautiful, interesting and fun. Here's my one lamp post doing it's best Marge Simpson imitation:
We have to dig out manully at first, to get to the firewood and to get all the way to the garage (over 300 feet from the front door) to get By-Tor the Snowblower. Kodi can't wait to help either.
This is almost too easy, which is just what I need these days with the bad joints and other ailments.
About an hour after this picture was taken, this tree toppled to the ground. This upset me, since I 'rescued' these trees from the overgrown, weed and vine infested lot back in '85. Seeing this tree leaning over like it was, along with several others in the yard, had me worried that they might come down. We watched this one come down in a white cloud of snow.
This is my front yard, standing at the end of the driveways. There's a house in there somewhere.
The whole set can be seen on Flickr.
Not all of the day was spent frolicking in the white stuff. I fitted a new heatsink to a (yet another) new PC build and did some overclocking action, plus took a nap. The latter was needed since an electrical surge scrambled the alarm clock/radio, blasting us with the local classical music station and leaving us unable to shut it off. Turning down the volume fixed it for the time being, the next little power failure reset it to working normally. At least we kept the power through the whole event.
Tomorrow will be a little bit more digging out and cleaning of vehicles, and, hopefully, the street will be cleared as well. I also got a bit of work I want to do in the attic for the support of plumbing vent pipes in preparation of the new roof this spring. It's always something, being a homeowner.
Snow for me is almost always beautiful, interesting and fun. Here's my one lamp post doing it's best Marge Simpson imitation:
We have to dig out manully at first, to get to the firewood and to get all the way to the garage (over 300 feet from the front door) to get By-Tor the Snowblower. Kodi can't wait to help either.
This is almost too easy, which is just what I need these days with the bad joints and other ailments.
About an hour after this picture was taken, this tree toppled to the ground. This upset me, since I 'rescued' these trees from the overgrown, weed and vine infested lot back in '85. Seeing this tree leaning over like it was, along with several others in the yard, had me worried that they might come down. We watched this one come down in a white cloud of snow.
This is my front yard, standing at the end of the driveways. There's a house in there somewhere.
The whole set can be seen on Flickr.
Not all of the day was spent frolicking in the white stuff. I fitted a new heatsink to a (yet another) new PC build and did some overclocking action, plus took a nap. The latter was needed since an electrical surge scrambled the alarm clock/radio, blasting us with the local classical music station and leaving us unable to shut it off. Turning down the volume fixed it for the time being, the next little power failure reset it to working normally. At least we kept the power through the whole event.
Tomorrow will be a little bit more digging out and cleaning of vehicles, and, hopefully, the street will be cleared as well. I also got a bit of work I want to do in the attic for the support of plumbing vent pipes in preparation of the new roof this spring. It's always something, being a homeowner.