Here is a story in tracks. In the foreground you can see where the quail landed and pushed the snow with his chest, then he walked for a while, and flew away.
Here is the same view this morning before we drove up the driveway. You can see by comparing the pictures that the snow got a bit deeper. The drifts at the bottom of the lane were about knee deep in yesterday's tire tracks, and the ones at the top by the gate were almost 3 ft high. I thought we should drive up first with the tractor so we would have new tracks to follow with the car, but hubby decided he would take a chance going up without them and maybe get the car stuck, but we made it on the first try. It did get a little bit interesting along the way, we went kinda sideways but hubby just kept going and steering out of it.
More new pictures on The View from My Place. Enjoy.
More snow storms are coming, we can see them on the tv weather map. Big storms. By this afternoon the first one will be here, it hit the west side of the state yesterday and overnight, then in a day or two we will get more that are aimed at California, but are so big that we will get the edges of them and that will give us more snow. We have about 10 inches on the ground now but have deep drifts. I stepped into one while I was feeding the horses and could just about sit down on/in it without changing position.
Yesterday I had a chiropractic appointment so I combined grocery shopping with that trip to town. The store had a coupon for $10 off on $50 worth of groceries. It sure doesn't take long to spend that much. I have another coupon just like it that is good next week. When I have those coupons I stock up on staple items when I have filled my list, and I take the calculator along to keep a running total.
Gas has dropped a few cents, was $3.16 about 10 days ago, and is down to $3.09. A gallon of milk costs about the same. Bread that sold for about $1 a loaf last year is $1.19 on sale now. I buy the good stuff, but should make some now that I have time on my hands.
After my appointment I walked about 6 blocks to my hubby's office. We went to have dinner at the Chinese restaurant, then he drove the pickup home so I could have the car which is an automatic, for the trip home. I fed the horses in the dark, put the groceries away and lay down on my vibrating heat mat. It didn't take long for it to put me to sleep, but I slept well overnight too. I must have needed the extra sleep.
Today I will do greenhouse chores, watering, and bug killing. Every winter I get an infestation of aphids. I have tried to control them somewhat organically with homemade sprays, but have now bought a product called Safer's Soap which is not as lethal and foul smelling as other insecticides on the market. It's time for another application to kill the ones that hatched after last weeks spraying. I have some repotting to do, three of my miscellaneous zygocactus will be repotted together since they are all the same color and have finished blooming.
Periodically I will work on a 1000 piece puzzle that was a Christmas gift, it is about half finished and going very slowly. It's on a card table which doesn't have enough room to really spread it out, so some of the pieces are still in the box. The picture is of running horses with dry grass and dust all around them, and mountains and sky in the background.
The first big storm has blown through and we are enjoying a break before round 2. Some communities in the area lost power but ours stayed on all day and night. My greenhouse roof vents which measure about 18 inches high by 36 inches wide and have steel frames were flapping in the wind. I wired them closed with baling wire (from hay bales).
The day started with our usual wind, and then all of a sudden wooooosh, the storm hit. Snow that was already on the ground was blowing around making the surface look similiar to waves on water, then the rain started. After everything was quite wet it changed to snow. Back and forth from rain to snow, rain again, snow again, all day.
Hubby called from town about 2 hours after the storm hit and said that the freeway was closed due to 4 semi trucks being blown over. Later there was also a motor home in some kind of major trouble. Power was out in communities in the next county.
My day included using the vacuum while I could, (although I secretly hoped to be rescued from that task), mopping the floors which I can do without power if necessary, and working on the big puzzle. It's still not done but getting there, maybe in 3 more days. I'm getting down to the hills and sky, and the grassy foreground where it is mostly a matter of working with shapes, only 2-300 of them. I saved the worst for last.
We had planned to go to my sister's today or tomorrow to visit, but probably will postpone that until next weekend. My sis called yesterday and said she was caught in the storm on her way to town. One bad place had almost whiteout conditions, the other was the mountain itself, which she described as "pretty wild up there near the top". The road is steep and winding, with several switchback turns and about a 6000 ft summit. 12 miles of the road kind of hang on the side of the mountain, with very few guard rails. We'll wait for a better day, but my freshly baked raisin bread might be gone by then.
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