Gail P
December 11th, 2009, 10:18 PM
So I posted some snowy pictures a few days ago when we had just a little, everyone else is posting their snow pictures, but does anyone have this much snow!
My back deck last night
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This morning
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This evening
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and it's still snowing! I love the snow. Love everything about winter, the colder temperatures, the snow, how pretty everything is, all the dogsledding I get to do. But, I do wish that it would come in easier to deal with amounts, not SO much all at one time. School's been out for 3 snow days, everyone on my road is snowbound as there's a car stuck down near the end blocking the plow from getting up the road. Last night my neighbours were out and couldn't get home so I had to go over and take care of their dogs. My dh works for the roads department and he was out all last night working, just came home (had to park down the road and walk up), had a quick shower and bite to eat and headed back out again. I think our area has been declared a state of emergency because we've gotten so much snow in the last 2 days. For Christmas I would dearly love to get a snowblower, then I could spend more time playing in the snow with the dogs and less time trying to shovel it (which has been almost completely pointless since yesterday morning - I'd clear the front porch and steps, go out and do the back deck, steps and the walkway over to the backyard gate and by the time I'd go to put the shovel away outside the front door there would be another 3"-4" on the front porch again.
I normally use a snowmobile to pack down a trail for dogsledding, but it's just a little older machine that is not all that powerful. I packed the trail yesterday morning and it has completely disappeared now, with no hope of me using the machine to groom it as I'd bury it. Today while slogging through hip-deep snow (with my snowshoes, who knows how deep I'd have sunk without them! :eek: ) going out to do chores I watched the horses wading through chest high snow with apparent ease so I got the bright idea of using them to break trail first, then snowshoe, then get out the skidoo and really pack the trail well. I'm only partly through phase one so far. My daughter and I went for a ride around the trail and my old horse that she was riding handled it just fine but the other one that I board had more difficulty. He's got a lower build (shorter legs, deeper body) and a few times he just sunk and then laid on his belly resting. While we were riding my feet were dragging in the snow and sometimes I was up to my knees in it. When he sunk I was sitting in the snow with only his head showing. I don't think I've ever seen a snowfall like this. Where the trail goes through the forest it was so pretty with the trees all hanging with snow. Wish I had the camera with me when we were back there. Maybe tomorrow, we only made one pass around today and thought that was enough for the horses, so I'm going to try again tomorrow. I also want to get some pictures of the dogs playing in this deep snow. They were following the path the horses made but then they'd make their own little side trails as well. They'd sink down so far that they'd be hidden behind the snow and it was like a maze with them following around the different pathways they'd made. Very different and interesting for them.
My back deck last night
60525
This morning
60526
This evening
60527
and it's still snowing! I love the snow. Love everything about winter, the colder temperatures, the snow, how pretty everything is, all the dogsledding I get to do. But, I do wish that it would come in easier to deal with amounts, not SO much all at one time. School's been out for 3 snow days, everyone on my road is snowbound as there's a car stuck down near the end blocking the plow from getting up the road. Last night my neighbours were out and couldn't get home so I had to go over and take care of their dogs. My dh works for the roads department and he was out all last night working, just came home (had to park down the road and walk up), had a quick shower and bite to eat and headed back out again. I think our area has been declared a state of emergency because we've gotten so much snow in the last 2 days. For Christmas I would dearly love to get a snowblower, then I could spend more time playing in the snow with the dogs and less time trying to shovel it (which has been almost completely pointless since yesterday morning - I'd clear the front porch and steps, go out and do the back deck, steps and the walkway over to the backyard gate and by the time I'd go to put the shovel away outside the front door there would be another 3"-4" on the front porch again.
I normally use a snowmobile to pack down a trail for dogsledding, but it's just a little older machine that is not all that powerful. I packed the trail yesterday morning and it has completely disappeared now, with no hope of me using the machine to groom it as I'd bury it. Today while slogging through hip-deep snow (with my snowshoes, who knows how deep I'd have sunk without them! :eek: ) going out to do chores I watched the horses wading through chest high snow with apparent ease so I got the bright idea of using them to break trail first, then snowshoe, then get out the skidoo and really pack the trail well. I'm only partly through phase one so far. My daughter and I went for a ride around the trail and my old horse that she was riding handled it just fine but the other one that I board had more difficulty. He's got a lower build (shorter legs, deeper body) and a few times he just sunk and then laid on his belly resting. While we were riding my feet were dragging in the snow and sometimes I was up to my knees in it. When he sunk I was sitting in the snow with only his head showing. I don't think I've ever seen a snowfall like this. Where the trail goes through the forest it was so pretty with the trees all hanging with snow. Wish I had the camera with me when we were back there. Maybe tomorrow, we only made one pass around today and thought that was enough for the horses, so I'm going to try again tomorrow. I also want to get some pictures of the dogs playing in this deep snow. They were following the path the horses made but then they'd make their own little side trails as well. They'd sink down so far that they'd be hidden behind the snow and it was like a maze with them following around the different pathways they'd made. Very different and interesting for them.