snowy day ~

It's certainly is a snowy day here  ... as it was yesterday.

Sam went to move the snowmobile and really got it buried.  People who snowmobile know what I'm talking about ... not all snow is snowmobiling snow.  It too has to be the right kind of snow for riding... especially if it's off of a hard packed trail.   Yesterday's snow was NOT the right kind of snow.  It was very heavy and packy ... as evidence of Sam's snowmobile ride fiasco.  He only made it about 20 feet from the garage and was buried right up to the handle bars.  He already had it half shoveled out by time I saw him and grabbed the camera.

After some heavy duty shoveling he was able to get it out and back up to the garage.  Personally, I would of left it sit until spring! 

Even the snow plow had a hard time yesterday.  What a nice sound to hear though, when you're snowed in up to your eyebrows ... the roar of the snowplow truck coming up the driveway.

  The snow was just so heavy that even the big truck had a hard time ... even with chains on it's wheels.

It would push ahead so far ... then have to back down the driveway and make another running start at it.  Our driveway isn't that steep ... but just steep enough to make it difficult.

After FOUR attempts it finally was able to push it's way up the hill!

It cleaned out some of the snow ... enough that we can now navigate the driveway ... but we still had a LOT of shoveling to do.

After the plow pulls out of the yard ... I was in the house and I hear this loud "THUMP".  The snow came sliding down off the garage roof.

If it only would have happened a minute sooner ... the plow could have pushed it out of the way.  Two feet thick of snow sliding off a metal roof can really make a loud noise ~ especially when 3/4 of it comes off at the same time.

It sure is pretty ...

 

... if you don't have to be looking at it on the end of a shovel :)

Notice Sam's head  in the center of the picture? 

 Walking behind the snowbank by the woodpile.  

He's over six foot tall ... 

my poor sister Cheryl would be lost!

We sure do have the snow.

Until next time ...

So it goes in my neck of the woods.

~mel