The Shovel and the Car

Both stuck.

It's Hard to Shovel When...

More Snow

This is the view out our front door. You will notice the door handle at the bottom of the picture . That will give you an idea how deep the snow is. During the weekend snow collected on the roof and slid off onto the deck. Today it's blowing over the house and collecting on the deck. Good thing we use the back door. We'll wait for Mr. Sun to do the shoveling work for us.
It is a perfect day for quilting if I can make it to the studio through this blizzard.

And It's Still Snowing...

And more to come.

Snow!!

Still wish you were here. The boys could shovel the deck! I admit it. I took this one from a low angle. It's only waist deep at the highest part of the drift.




Here it is from outside. I had a hard time making it to the studio. The snow is well over knee deep most of the way. Time to break out the snowshoes.

Snow

If you wonder why I get so much quilting done, here is one reason. The snow was deeper on the hill leading up to this spot. The temperature today is only -18 but it is snowing hard and then expected to get very cold again.
I can't get the "new" sewing machine to work. The needle doesn't pick up the bobbin thread. Also the little wire on the tension disk is broken. It may get fixed some day or may just end up being an ornament. It is unusual in that it can be put on a treadle cabinet or used with the crank. I guess you could call it a transformer.

Fairyland

Today it looks like we are living in Fairyland. The trees are covered with frost and there is the odd big fat snowflake wafting down. This was taken from our front deck.

And this one from the back deck. I'll have to go for a walk soon.

We are hosting another Raku firing today so there will be photos of that later today or tomorrow.

Walk in the Snow

I don't usually post twice in a day but the walk in the snow was too nice to wait until tomorrow.
Here is the car, stuck at the end of the lane. We decided to just leave it there until this storm is over. We are hoping that Mr. Sun will help us out eventually.




Relaxing after struggling up the hill in more than knee-deep snow.



The snow is very deep. It must be at least two feet (about 60 cm) and soft and fluffy.

Snow

Yesterday and last night we had about a foot and a half of nice, soft, fluffy, white snow. We went for a walk and Simba was almost out of sight in it. He was totally enjoying it. In fact , in the morning when I went out on the deck to get something, he actually grabbed my hand in his mouth and tried to coax me out for a walk. It was so funny. I just had to get dressed properly and go.



Here is a picture of our table on the deck with it's layer of snow. It looks just like a big white cake. I should put a candle in it. I'm not sure why the picture turned out so blue but you can see the effect anyway.