Snow photos

[Debbie]

It's very rare for us to get snow on the coast. Yesterday was some unusual weather patterns that created a big circle of cold air and snow from Alaska. They kept bumping back the time for it to arrive, so I gave up and went to bed. Overnight though I got to watch it coming down. This morning I'm amazed to see we've gotten around 4 inches of the white stuff. It's quite pretty! Added benefit, our ground wasn't frozen, it's much too warm, so while it's pretty, it won't stick around very long. Our sun is out and it's falling off the trees as I type.

[harveydales]

Wow, it looks beautiful! We've just got mud now.......

[Debbie]

I'm so glad I thought to dash inside to grab the photos at first daylight. It's so rare for our area to receive snow and we ended with such a depth! It reminds me of the Rockies in Colorado

Of course our temperatures have been in the 40s and 50*Fs so there was practically no chance it would stay. It's a miracle it even stuck to the ground and trees. Today it's melted away at least half if not 2/3rds the way. Fine by me, the ground and trees could certainly use the gradual soaking. We've been in drought for most of last year, and through this winter. I wouldn't mind a few more rounds of this, or the usual soaking rains.

About the only downside is the snow seems to have done something to my landline phone no clue how/what, only that I put in a ticket to have the telephone guy come have a look tomorrow. It must be dire as the auto machine and then the human both said "Oh my!' and created the ticket for the repairman. Come to think on it, I don't remember them coming so quickly.

[harveydales]

We never get snow like that here either. It reminds me of my childhood in Germany and Switzerland. Beautiful but not practical. Hope you get your landline sorted quickly.

[Debbie]

Thankfully the landline phone was a super easy fix, or at least on my part. They contacted me way early and instead of coming to my home, they were working on their line and equipment along the highway. Next thing I knew, my telephone was ringing in and my answer machine had kicked in ~ hurrahhh!!!

The repairman told me it was an issue with one of their boxes, and several customers were affected. Hmmm..... makes me wonder how many of my neighbors either didn't realize their phone was working, or had no way of getting it fixed? I'm just very happy they were busy getting it all repaired.

We're preparing for yet another possible round of snow storms starting over the weekend and into next week. We normally get our winter rains from Hawaii, but these are circling from Alaska.

Pam I've always admired the true Alpine countries, and their abilities to deal with such masses of snow! The postcards and photos are breathtaking, but I wouldn't want to have to care for livestock in it

[harveydales]

Glad thjey got you sorted quickly and with no fuss.

Debbie, I wouldn't fancy caring for livestock in those conditions but they are all geered up for it. Even horse riding carries on and looks wonderful riding in the snow - better thanhere where we are riding in mud!

[Debbie]

I've never been to any of the Alpine countries. Is it a dry snow? They have very dry, fine powder conditions in Colorado where my aunt and uncle live and their snow is NOTHING like the cold slushy snow we had to deal with in Missouri growing up. It's almost like not having snow, although the drifts and white outs (blizzard conditions, so no visibility) weren't fun.

We were supposed to have even worse winter snow storms this weekend, but thankfully Mother Nature has warmed it all by a few degrees. It's coming down as rain where we are but the mountain passes are all slushie, ice and black ice.

[harveydales]

Yes it's a dry snow over there and the air is very dry so it doesn't feel as cold as it does over here. I guess similar to Colorado - somewhere I've never been but would love to one day.

Glad you missed the bad snowstorms but slush and rain isn't much fun either. We've just had 2 weeks of ice, wind followed by heavy rain. Now we are promised 2 weeks of milder dry weather so I want to get on with doing stuff with Eve. I took her out on the roads yesterday with a friend, the first time she's done anything in 2 weeks, and she was really good. We met a big lorry, tractor and motorbike and she was absolutely fine.

[Debbie]

Yep, that's almost identical to what we've had the last two weeks. A lot of very cold rains and ice, although originally they'd said it would all be snow, so I'm glad Mother Nature shifted it to rain for us.

It's still very cold. We thankfully missed a really big snow. They got it much further south of us (4 hours' drive away), up to 15" where LeeLoo is . It's great for her to get to experience her first snow, although I feel for her breeder, Kimberly, having to figure a way to get to the ponies. It was quite the challenge from what she was saying. Plus many of the trees over there aren't used to the heavy snows and have fallen over, taking out powerlines with them. Blossom and I have been through the hip height snows and sub zero F temps, it was nice of Nature to let someone else experience it.

As for Colorado, it's a lovely place! I've visited off and on since I was a tiny child. My aunt still lives out there. I lived a summer out there in Boulder at the base of the Flatiron mountains. It's very dry climate. You have to stay on top of your skin moisturizer and I used to help a gal I rode with, her horses feet we'd smear with an oil after the rides to help combat the dry hooves. Still, it's quite pretty to visit.

Lovely to hear how well Eve is taking to her walks! I'm glad you are giving her time to take onboard the traffic she'll meet without having to cope with a rider up. Although as nosey as she sounds, I bet she loves the intriguing new experiences

[valerie n scout]

We could do with that sort of snow this weekend ! What with the corona will keep some of the silly blighters at home !