In The Meadow, We Can Build A Snow Man (If We Could Only Find The Meadow)

It is Saturday and we did not lose power at all.  The lights flickered a little bit around 12 last night, but they stayed on.  It is still snowing out and Mother Nature wasn't messing around with this one.  I've ventured outside and lived to tell about it.

 Below is the front door.  I was really the only way to get out of the house.  The snow was probably about a foot and a half here, but as I made my way down the stairs it got a little deeper.

 I made it down the stairs.  This picture gives you a pretty good impression of the depth of the snow.  You can see the tip of the safety cone, but not much else.

I made my way to the street.  The mailbox is about three feet away from the plowed 'edge' of the street.  This is what I will have to shovel out later on.

 Here are some more street views.  Central Street is virtually empty with the occasional procession of plow trucks.

 Below you can see my parents telling me to stop messing around with the camera and to begin shoveling.   

 

Here is my attempt to get back up the hill:

 

 Not sure if you can see clearly, or not, but the entrance to my house is covered by snow.  The door itself is about 6 inches off of the level of the deck.  The snow drift reaches up about half the distance at the door.  In theory, I would be able to sled down my stairs, but I cannot image how I'd get to the top of the staircase.  The deck door was not as bad, but it was too much for me to get out there to make steak and eggs...or steak and Bugles.

 I found the snow blower.  It started without much trouble and I began my journey of clearing the snow off of the driveway.  The depth of the snow was higher than the auger.  That means we had around 28 inches of snow on the driveway.  Some parts were covered by drifts, so that not an official measurement, but it gives you an idea.

 I've successfully cleared a path down by the front stairs in this photo, but I decided to put the phone away and concentrate on moving snow.  At this time, I've cleared a path to the cars, but not to the street.  I am taking a break to update this blog and catch my breath.

I am excited to think that a number of people have taken some time to read through these posts.  I wasn't even sure if I'd like blogging, but it is somewhat relaxing.  I can get verbose, so this is a nice way of expressing my thoughts.  I hope everyone will take some time to read my New Year's Resolution blogs.  Before posting this, I checked and saw that I had roughly 130 page visits throughout the past 24 hours.  The visits came from all of the United States, but I also had people in Canada, Great Britain, Spain, and Germany checkout my stuff.  

Gracias and Danka, eh, Your readership is what it's all aboot.  Until next time, Cheerio!!!