A Back View
It is surprising that we don't have much snow yet. New York state usually has record amounts of snow by now. We are used to it. So today when we took our garbage to our land fill and recycling center, we drove on truck trail which goes through the forest. It was a sheet of thick ice. You could ice skate down the middle. Now I wouldn't have taken it if I was driving. There are a lot of sharp curves, and if you went off them you'd go down a steep bank. That would be too much excitement for me to drive on it. My husband though, drives it slow and calm, like its just normal. He can drive any road, in any weather.
No snow? In February?
At the top of the trail, this is the hay field without snow in February. I still can't believe it. It started out as a dreary day, but now our sun is shining. The sun is hitting our solar panels now. We already had our generator on. As soon as the panels are bringing in more power, the generator will be turned off. We may not have had much snow, but we still have had cold temperatures and sunless days. Too many to count!
My favorite tree along the way!
Of course, what this means is that if we don't have a lot of snow to melt off in spring. Then there is not as much mud. I am definitely not taking it for granted that we will not get any more snow. This is February after all, and February is usually our worse month of the year. I have a feeling some big snow storms will be on the way this month. If I am wrong, that is okay.
As you can see, the fields have no snow at all!
I put plastic milk bottles outside at night to freeze for our cooler. They have not frozen solid in weeks now. Even though it is cold, they are not freezing solid. They freeze a little bit but not enough. Today, I saw where there is some ice that fell off the roof and I am going to use that in the cooler instead. In winter, I never have to buy ice.
Hobo was napping when we got back!
Copyright © 2012 Kathleen G. Lupole
All Photographs Copyright © 2012 Kathleen G. Lupole
4 comments:
Not much snow here, either. Last winter we had several feet of snow for months.... not so this winter. Cute cat, btw.
Hope weather doesnt turn crazy and we will have snow in April!
Don't laugh, Paula! We have had snow in April and May before. I look through my old blog posts and see the dates of the last snow falls and April is pretty common. Not in Virginia though,lucky!
It has been a very strange winter. We have almost no snow in Michigan either and even more strange, Lake Michigan has not frozen at all! We are wondering too if there is more snow coming or if we will just jump right to spring. I really cannot remember another winter like this with so little snow.
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