Day 2.017: In the 'hood?

Here is the lovely Exile #2 staying warm in her self-knitted hoody on Saturday. It is, in my experience, approximately the same weight as a sheep and, I am informed, very nice and warm. As are her new winter boots.

Today has been another day much like Saturday - cold, but dry and sunny. At some point overnight we are expecting the front edge of a large winter storm to arrive and bring us a significant amount of snow up to tomorrow lunchtime followed by some of our favourite -'mixed precipitation' - i.e. sleet and freezing rain. I'm just about getting used to what sort of chaos these different types of water cause (and the fact that, as discussed before, 'sleet' is not what it is on the other side of the Atlantic).

So, it would seem like there is a good chance of the snow covering hanging around for several more days (at least) and beating the previous longest spell (28 days from mid February 2007) of not seeing the ground except where the snow had been cleared. Last time we saw our lawn was New Years Eve - I measured the snow this evening in an undisturbed part of our front yard and it is still four inches deep.

Time to get to bed and rest the shovelling muscles!