The Aftermath

Snowpocalypse 2010

This is the last one I took around 5 p.m. - you can barely make out our neighbor's car parked in front of our yard. (No, he shouldn't be parked here, yes it will totally interfere with the snow plows. Yes, we asked him to move it - no, he won't.)

It's so hard to see just how much snow is out in the road. At least 2 feet everywhere - more where we've shoveled some out into the road from sidwalks and cars.


This was about 10:30 a.m. There's a whole lot more piled up now. I'll try to take another pic in the morning when I try to finish up around the cars. Just getting all the snow off the cars is almost impossible.


This is our same neighbors tree all fallen over into our yard and on the fence. We won't know until the snow melts some how much it messed up the fence or if the trees broken or not.


This was also in the 10 a.m. set. That poor huge tree is so beautiful. So far it's just really bent over and hasn't broken. I'm pulling for it!

Part 2

It's a beautiful day. Thank God the sun is shining and helping melt the snow a little bit in the places we shoveled. It took us over 2 hours just to clear the ten feet of sidewalk to the cars and then get all the snow off of them and clear all around them. We're still waiting for them to come and clear our street.





The dog on the other side of the fence lives somewhere behind us. He always comes to see if Ramen is outside. It took a lot of effort for Ramen to get up the slope in the backyard because the snow is so deep.

Lots of Snow!

The crazy part is it's only 10 a.m. and it's supposed to snow a lot more all day!

First Snow

This is the first time it's snowed since we moved into the house. Love the snow on the trees!


The view from my desk:


Backyard One:


Backyard Two:

Useless Pets

Lying in bed this morning I kept hearing a scratching noise. I had closed the cat's in/out window and figured it was one of them wanting it open. A while later I woke up enough to realize all three pets were in the bedroom with us - so it couldn't be one of them making the noise.

Great. I got up and went into the laundry/storage room and heard the scratching. Went back into the bedroom to wake up Nerdstar and then to explain to the pets just how useless they were!

I'm pretty sure Little Man brought this mole in and then got bored with it. Silly had no interested. And I don't think the dog even heard it. Ugh.



It was almost three inches long. We put it in a big bucket with a lid and then decided I'd take it down to a very big field about a mile from the house and set it free. We just couldn't kill it.

About two weeks ago Little Man did manage to kill a baby one and bring it in and leave it in his food bowl. So this probably isn't the last of them.

Boobies

Our ornithologist friend thought of us when she saw this and brought it back from Ecuador.

View Boobies.