More snow on the way....

Federal government was closed today. As of last night even the main roads were passable pretty much only if you had four wheel drive or some darn good tires. With temps in the single digits I imagine this morning was no fun. I'll have to ask Erin, she took the truck and went to work about 10.

It's warmed up to the high thirties and some melting is starting to happen. But temps back in the teens tonight, and this storm advisory from the National Weather Service tomorrow.

Issued by The National Weather Service
Baltimore/Washington, MD
11:58 am EST, Mon., Feb. 8, 2010

THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING.

* PRECIPITATION TYPE... SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS... POTENTIAL FOR 8 OR MORE INCHES OF SNOW. THERE IS A GOOD LIKELIHOOD OF SNOW IN EXCESS OF 10 INCHES.

Anyone want to bet the kids won't see school at all this week?

Feeling the tractor love

Daylight Breaks

On a lot of work.

Storm Wrap Up

Ok, I'm inside warming up and letting the wine soothe the aches an pains. Totals at our house are about 23.5" out in the middle of the field, but I know I walked through some deeper spots today that came half way up my thigh. I'll have to go and measure those tomorrow.

The snow is heavy. And slippery. And a royal pain to get off the road. I'll post pictures of the tractor work tomorrow, but just think scoop, dump, backup, scoop, dump, backup for 3/4 of a mile through 2+ feet of snow. About 1/2 way done now I guess, hopefully tomorrow goes faster. I doubt it since everything is freezing solid tonight.

Power went out last night about 9? Kids camped in front of the woodstove with the dogs. Dug my way into the barn this morning and got the generator out and hooked up to make a fresh cup of coffee. Some of the neighbors don't have woodstoves or generators and were getting pretty cold by this evening when the power finally came back on.

The important thing is the girls are having fun:

Well, that and the house hasn't collapsed under the weight yet. The girl on the right is the granddaughter of our neighbor, they were building quite the snow fort up at their house.

I did see a bunch of pine trees down, and personally lost some holly trees. Maybe Bettica Services will get some work out of this storm? Next year Bettica Services will be offering plowing for sure....

Snow Dog

No power since about 10 last night. Just measured 17" so far. Supposed
to keep snowing through the day. Very heavy snow.

And it begins...

Record snow predicted. Estimates are 20-30+". Will keep you posted.

Snow, snow, and more on the way

Finally got my snowy winter. 5 inches on Sunday, another 4 last night,
and a big storm scheduled for this weekend.

That's on top of the December storms which left us with more than our
annual average.

Anyhow, got the road scraped (you can't really plow with the tractor
bucket.)

Good temp for powder

A little farther south they're supposed to get enough to ski in their
own yards.

Dog Play

Ok, this was test....new app for my old iphone to record video, then upload it directly to the blog. The quality isn't the best in low light with lots of movement I guess, but overall it did work.

So the subjects are the old dog and the new puppy wrestling. If they're not wrestling, they're play tug of war which is even funnier to watch.

-Dave

It might be a bit big...

Dave and his beer

This picture is from early January. Dave's birthday brew!

The Wait

I have the worst luck with checked luggage. Oops, there it is. Lucky
day.

Figures

After a couple weeks of no new snow, a big storm moves in and starts
to dump as we leave. Sigh.

Early lunch on the mountain

"Daddy, you're the best!"

I earned a hat!

I skied black diamonds and crushed the mogul runs to earn this.

Daydreaming about this for awhile

But now my lathe tools are finally organized.

Now we can go.

I'm done.

Daddy, we can't leave yet!

I'm not finished!

People Dog

Bathroom Progress Resumes

2nd coat of mud up.