SNOW, SNOW, SNOW

Sunday night I finally had to make the call to Mike to hire him and his frontend loader to remove snow. It has never gotten to this point before, but well...It's an El Nino Winter. The tipping point came Sunday when we were leaving. I nearly got stuck TWICE going DOWNHILL on the road from the house. For the last month (since Christmas) we have been breaking a trail with the ATV to make the it up and down from the road, but over time it is just been building up.

Friday nights drive in was very reminiscent of going up to Lutsen on the north shore of Lake Superior in that it was snowing (hypnotic in the headlights), the roads had not yet been plowed and it was -5F.

By morning the skies had cleared and everything was covered.

As the day went on the wind picked up and "snow devils" were evident everywhere. It was interesting to watch them kick-off down valley and then work their way toward us, ultimately engulfing the house.
By Sunday morning...guess what, it was snowing again.

Since we were in the house all weekend we actually got quite a bit done. Marlys was on glue patrol, removing adhesive from the hardwood floor. She has tried just about everything, but guess what worked...WD40.

We also had the bathroom mirrors and shower doors installed last week. They turned out good.

The drive home on Sunday was epic in that it was flat light and the roads from our place, out the 12 miles, to C9 were snowed over with an occasional drift from Saturday. If it hadn't been for the dirty tracks the cattle left in places I am not sure I would have known where the road was. The snow let up a little near the Springs, but started up again at Monument Pass.

I have to think this will help with the on going water shortage in the West.