Spring

Looks like spring is trying hard to be here. I heard a Robin the other day. We had some rain with thunder and lightening. Life is good.

Warm!

My kitties know how to stay warm

Nicer than snow and cold

I love my turtle collection. Right now most of them are packed away because I thought we were moving. I actually have at least one more not shown in this picture. I started out with the three ceramic ones (three different sizes, all facing each other, just to the right of the powder blue one in front). My parents bought them for me from a gift shop out in southern California somewhere, maybe in Blythe. We kept desert tortoises as pets when we lived in the desert. They were only ones we found covered in mud after heavy rains. Never just walk over and pick up a desert tortoise. It frightens them and compromises their health.

Snowplows!! Finally!!

Yay!! We are plowed out at last. Well, I probably have a ridge of snow along the car now. Too much snow. Melt, dammit!

Dug out at last

I got to the store today, the shelves haven't been restocked yet but I found most of what I needed. My street is horrible! I guess because none of us have driveways so we can't park anywhere else. Well, we have an alley, but it's SNOWED IN. So all that was done was a couple passes with a pickup truck with a plow on front. The ruts are deep. Cars get stuck in many places but my trusty Hyundai seems to do well considering it is a car. All the streets in my area are one-way because they are narrow. So coming home I saw a homemade sign on a stick, stuck in a heap of snow at the end of my street. It said 4 x 4 only or you'll get stuck!

Friday---STILL snowed in

A few of my neighbors have dug out, but I still have a mountain of snow between may car and the plowed area down the middle of the street. I hope I get dug out before the milk spoils.

Snow! And tons of it

We had a big snowstorm come through last night, and a pile of Lake effect snow this morning. Here are some pictures.

Out my front door. It's 9AM and no plows in sight

Looking toward the expressway. I could tell it was open because I heard the plows banging all night, and the traffic rumbling all day

About 11 AM the Lake Effect snow hit and dumped another 5 or 6 inches



The cool drift out my front door tonight, before my daughter shoveled. Still no snow plows.

Just one of the huge drifts that coverd the fence

Drifts along the fence on the north side

The front shoveled. See that big blocky looking part on the left? That's 28 inches high. I just measured it.

Still no plows. There is a 4 foot pile of snow all around my car. When the plows do come by someday, the pile will be taller.