Snow Days
/We had some snowy and cold weather last week. I filled our bird feeders before the bad weather arrived, but the feeders were getting low by the time we did our 2-day Feeder Watch.
I put some seed out on trays set on the ground for the second day to supplement the waning food supply in the feeders. The temperature was in the single digits and teens! Once the birds discovered the seed on the ground, there were a lot of bird tracks around the trays; there were no tracks for the two snow days before I put the seed out on the trays!
The view of the pine from my office window became less snowy after the snow stopped mid-way through the second day, since the wind quickly blew the snow from the pine needles; the snow caught in the holly leaves stayed longer.
We got about 6 inches at our house (although there might have been some areas that were deeper because the snow blew around a bit). Our neighbor across the street was the first in the neighborhood to shovel their driveway.
I used my snow blower for the first time; I bought it toward the end of last season after appreciating my neighbor clearing my driveway with his snow blower; my back tends to hurt immediately when shoveling snow. It was a learning experience with the blower. The breeze caused snow to blow onto me, the batteries did not last long enough to clear the whole driveway, and the big pile at the end of the driveway created by the snowplow was problematic. On the plus side – my back did not bother me at all!
I was at home for 4 days. Meetings that were on my calendar for those days were rescheduled or moved to zoom. My husband got out on the 4th morning for a dental appointment, but his car has higher clearance than mine. I got out on the 5th day to buy groceries!
