Hey! It's winter out there.
Dec. 15th, 2017 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkWe've got snow! Lots of it. Monday it snowed, but only a few inches. It was still enough to make DB's drive home from AA fraught, and it's possible that I would have skipped FCB rehearsal had we had it. But rehearsals for the rest of the year are cancelled, so I didn't have to make that choice. J and I shoveled the driveway after he got home.
Monday morning I mailed SR's box. Priority to Australia isn't cheap. OTOH, it'll get to her in just over a week, which is about as long as it would take a box to get to Alaska.
We got about 9" of snow on Wednesday. Two rounds of shoveling, one Wednesday afternoon and one Thursday after work. My spine is telling me that that's quite enough shoveling. The snow is deep enough in the yard that the deer tracks are interesting - at least one of the deer that wanders the backyard isn't picking its feet up far enough to clear the snow, and the hooves are leaving little tranches. It's a somewhat perplexing track until you get up to it and realise what it is.
Wednesday morning, before the snow really started, I saw a flurry of wings out of the corner of my eye, and looked out to see the hawk stoop into the rosebush in pursuit of lunch. I don't think he caught anything, but it sure kept the smaller birds out of the yard for a few hours.
And it's snowing again. They tell us we shouldn't get much this time around. And then it's going to warm up next week. Mornings should be amusing, as it drops below freezing overnight. I wonder how many days they will not have school next week. :) (Not my problem anymore, tyvm.)
Monday morning I mailed SR's box. Priority to Australia isn't cheap. OTOH, it'll get to her in just over a week, which is about as long as it would take a box to get to Alaska.
We got about 9" of snow on Wednesday. Two rounds of shoveling, one Wednesday afternoon and one Thursday after work. My spine is telling me that that's quite enough shoveling. The snow is deep enough in the yard that the deer tracks are interesting - at least one of the deer that wanders the backyard isn't picking its feet up far enough to clear the snow, and the hooves are leaving little tranches. It's a somewhat perplexing track until you get up to it and realise what it is.
Wednesday morning, before the snow really started, I saw a flurry of wings out of the corner of my eye, and looked out to see the hawk stoop into the rosebush in pursuit of lunch. I don't think he caught anything, but it sure kept the smaller birds out of the yard for a few hours.
And it's snowing again. They tell us we shouldn't get much this time around. And then it's going to warm up next week. Mornings should be amusing, as it drops below freezing overnight. I wonder how many days they will not have school next week. :) (Not my problem anymore, tyvm.)
