On Monday I was up around 6AM and got the fires going well. Fed the cat and sat down to write my post. I didn’t pull the shades up until after 8AM as there was no sun.
It was still snowing but lightly. All the paths were filled in. My brother had gotten up really early to plow but got the truck stuck up at the barn. He went to work. The driveway was only partially cleared.
The fence around the New Herb garden is 28” high.
A delivery person tried to run through the bank thrown up by the town plows and got stuck. A town employee pulled him out.
My son cleared a sort of a path to go up to get the delivery. The snow was 6” deep on the porch and you couldn’t see the steps at all.
I went out early and shoveled the steps around the house and the walkway to the car, up to the driver’s side door.
The 3rd bump of snow started around 11AM and was pretty light.
My son shoveled the walkways to the wood shed. But the snow was too deep to do all the walkways. So I called the contractor and asked him to come get the snowblower running and do those areas. He couldn’t come until Tuesday afternoon.
This is how deep the snow was in front of the house, nearly to my knee. In back it was up to thigh high from drifting.
Once I was back inside and rested, I got laundry started and also started another pot of butter beans, made correctly this time.
The birds were glad I’d filled the feeders the night before. Oddly enough, the squirrels haven’t yet figured out jumping from the fort to the rope.
I spent the rest of the day changing over laundry, taking a 2 hour nap early afternoon, and feeding fires every 1½ hours. I went out and fed the birds before dark, just as the 4th and much heavier bump of snow was starting, got the shades pulled and sat down to beans for supper.
I watched several episodes of 800 Words before heading to bed around 9:15PM.
My brother didn’t get home in time to get the truck out, so I asked Tom if he could do it on Tuesday morning. But he couldn’t get here before my helper friend arrived, so I had to cancel my helper friend for the day. I need to finish the laundry, clean up the kitchen, and sweep the steps and walks again. And there are the fires to tend as this cold spell isn’t going to break until Monday, February 2nd. I doubt I’ll get to bills/budget.