It's -11 right now (1:30 a.m.) and getting colder. I'm awake, slept for a few hours but then something (with 4 legs) woke me up. I was hoping to catch the lunar eclipse but it's too cloudy. Treasure went out and barked at the moon--or else she was just barking because her toes were cold. I'm glad I got up to feed the stove, the living room is getting chilly. I brought in firewood before going to bed, but not much. Rats.
We ended up with a lot of snow, at least 18 inches. It's powder. My plow man came twice so my driveway is in great shape. The car is a lump of snow but it started at -5 when I moved it so he could plow. It will start at -11 too, though when it's -20 you lose your radio stations and have to reset them all. I don't know how cold it's supposed to get but they were yammering on and on about wind chills in the -20's on the weather report at 6 p.m. Whatever it turns out to be is what it will be. Summer people always say how lucky I am to live in god's country. Well yes, this is god's country but sometimes it's pretty hostile. I'm so lucky I don't have to go anywhere today and I don't have to worry about frozen pipes as long as I keep the water flowing. I can't say enough about the success of the spray foam insulation I had installed last summer. Man what a difference!
I'll shovel again when it gets light, right now there's a very narrow path down the deck stairs and through thigh-deep snow to the wood shed. OK, maybe not THIGH deep, but knee deep at least. The plow piles are taller than my car, man there's a lot of snow.
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