Unsettled weather

Today it snowed in the morning. 

Then the sun came out for awhile, and the snow was gone.


And it was a full moon.

I just know Spring will be here soon.

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Good bye snow

We did lose our power on Friday morning. I was never a good camper. I try to look at it like an adventure, me, a pioneer women – never! I do not like living without power. I do not like not having running water. We’re on a well and can’t pump water without power. Derin has an extra horse water trough that we keep full of water in the fall and winter months for utility use here at the house.  I keep many gallon containers of fresh water on hand year around. I do not like it when the house is almost as cold as outside. Thank goodness, we have a propane fireplace. That helped the front room stay sort of warm. Derin cooked on the gas barbeque outside. What good camper he is - his hands were so cold, even with gloves on.  The roads were still icy in many places, we didn’t try going out. The neighbors behind us could not get their cars up the little hill and I didn’t want our car/truck parked on the road if we couldn’t get up our very icy driveway. Friday I was able to start a new (to me) book, but Saturday and Sunday, we had more snow and ice pellets and there wasn’t enough light by the fireplace. And then on Sunday afternoon, the wind was blowing, it was a snow/rain mix coming down and the skylight in the living room started to leak.  It leaked right on Derin, not allot but we put down the big blue plastic tarp and buckets.  We have the roofers coming Monday morning.   I miss not having the internet available, I can’t sew – woe is me, and I miss not having any TV. Whine, whine, whine. Sunday, late in the afternoon the PUD truck came then left. I almost cried as they drove away. Come back, come back – fix the power! They did about an hour later. Aaahhhh . . . the power is back on. Amazing how much we rely on electricity.

It’s Monday and the warming trend is here at last. Good-bye snow. I love a nice snowfall each year and then I am done with it for this year. In the meantime getting rid of all of this used snow is so messy, ugly. I will be glad when it is gone. I am ready to move on to Springtime.

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Still Snowing

It's hard to predict the weather here in the Pacific Northwest.  We are guarded by the Olympic Mountains to the west and the Cascades Mountains to the east.  Sometimes storm systems get stalled out in the Pacific Ocean and don't come in as fast as predicted, or veer to the north or south of us.  Anyway the warming trend we were expecting isn't quite here today, maybe later tonight or tomorrow.  The snow is still coming down here, but in some areas it has changed to rain or ice.   Last day for the snow - - - don't know, just so we don't loose our power.

Bobby peeking around

Bobby "let's go in"

Snow on the barn cupola

It's Snowing!

We woke up to more snow.  This morning I watched the hummingbirds go back and forth between their feeders while I had my hot coffee.  Glad I'm not outside, looking for food, trying to stay warm. 

Brrrr   ~   Very Cold!

And look at this guy getting out of the snow.  He found a good spot on the porch railing and stayed there for part of the afternoon.

Forecast for tomorrow is we start warming up to normal temperatures.     Good Bye Snow!

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A Snow Day

Winter is here after all!  We have snow!   I still look forward to snow like I did as a kid.  Even DH says he is excited to have snow.  He's retired!  What?  - that's right I'm sorta, kinda retired too.  O.K., we're both old and we like one nice snow fall each year.   But we don't go out and play in it anymore.  Just watch the snowflakes come down.  I like to stay inside and stay warm.   

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