When getting the mail at the street the other day, I was noticing the front of the house as snow was sliding off the roof. It’s getting pretty deep again this year! I wondered how it compared to last year at this time, so decided to look back and compare.
We seem to have just a little more this year! I decided to do a further comparison by checking the side of the house, in the dog yard, where we have what we dubbed last year “Snow Mountain”.
I rarely see Luke scaling that mountain, like he and and our Angel Cricket often did last year. We don’t spend as much time out in the yard, since Luke doesn’t play ball like Cricket did, walks are now our main activity. We walked twice out in snowstorms last week!
They’ve been smaller storms, but they do seem to have added up. The truth is, I’m getting a little burnt out on winter this year. We’ve skipped more days lately, not because of the snow, but because of the cold temperatures. It seems like February has been colder than usual, and even on days when it seemed to reach higher temperatures, if the sun wasn’t out, the cold just seems to go through to my bones, especially on my hands. Luke has been OK with it, but I’ve been the wimp lately! I’ve had some other stuff going on too, family things and such, that have disrupted my schedule too, but mostly it’s been that I just don’t want to go out in the cold! Luckily yesterday was warmer and the next few days look to be at least above freezing. I can deal with that!
“The Flock” doesn’t love walking in the snow, and the Dadz kindly puts straw down in their run so they don’t have to.
The problem is, it keeps getting covered with more snow again! They’re happier when they can sit on the porch in the sun, and though we haven’t had a lot of that lately, we have had some.
What might be a bit disheartening, however, is that when I looked at last year’s blog posts, it turned out that Snow Mountain was much higher in March than in February!
Winter is probably not done with us yet, despite what the groundhog said. If we can just keep the temperatures at least close to freezing, that would be good! We’ll try not to worry too much about the constant loss of our trails due to snowstorm after snowstorm that keep filling in our tracks!
What is Mother Nature up to in your neck of the woods for late February? Will it be an early spring?
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I love, love, love winter and was super excited for the snowfall we had last night. HOWEVER, I am totes done with the ice. This has been the iciest winter I can remember and it seems at least once a walk, Sampson falls down. 🙁
I’m done with it.
Oh no, poor Sampson! I hope you get nothing but snow from here on out.
We had some spells, but we haven’t had a lot of ice this winter. But spring usually brings it out, with the melting and then re-freeze. I have to be extra careful with Luke because of his bad knees, so if it’s icy, we just don’t go out much. 🙁
We’re hoping all the snow is done for this year…but we kinda doubt it.
Yes, unfortunately March is probably going to give us much more than we want!
I am the same as you with regard to the cold and my hands. I have Raynaud’s syndrome, and I end up in tears when I’m out at about 10°F and lower. It hurts so much!
Let’s beseech mother nature to bring us both warmth. I love seeing the birds on your porch. What a farm house! It looks wonderful!
Thank you so much!! There are days I feel like our little farmhouse is the only thing keeping me sane (along with hubby and furry/feathery family). It’s one of the best things we ever decided to do.
Oh no, I can just imagine the pain you must feel with that syndrome, just knowing how much it can hurt my hands when they get cold. I have to remind Luke to be gentle when taking treats, because even the least little grab of my fingers hurts so much!!
We haven’t been able to do much walking here it’s just too MUDDY. If it’s not raining the yard is standing in water from the last time it rained. And on a lot of days even if it doesn’t rain it’s foggy and gray all day. Hopefully this Thursday Miss Tammy will be able to walk with us in town. We have missed our beach walks. We got a chuckle out of the flock on the porch, we had Canadian Geese on our porch one morning.
I hope you were able to get out for your walk!!
You remind me that muddy will be the next thing that makes our walks difficult, once the snow is finally gone! It’s always something, right? 🙂
You have gotten a lot more snow than us in Massachusetts. I wish I had a metal roof.
I hear the next storm might hit you harder than us though! The metal roof is awesome – self-cleaning – though Luke doesn’t love it when the snow and ice falls off, since it can be quite noisy!
It’s been all about the rain here…We sure hope the weather takes a turn for the better for everybody soon!!
We’ve had two days of sunshine this week – amazing! Now we’re up for two more snowstorms this weekend though! Hope your rain as let up. It’s all or nothing there, isn’t it?
Oh wow, interesting year to year photos. I love the picture of the chickens on the porch!!!
Happy hens!!
I cannot imagine that much snow on the ground at one time.
Beautiful photos though.
Hugs Cecilia
You are lucky all you have to do is try to imagine. LOL!
I have the utmost respect for y’all thriving and surviving in the snow! I whine when it gets in the low 40s so I’m pretty sure I’d freeze to death up there. LOL! I hope spring comes soon so the guineas can play.
I guess you adjust to what you grow up with. I imagine I’d be whining about your heat in the summer!
Gosh, you really do get a whole lotta snow! We’ve received more in this month than the past entire winter. By February, I’m so over it and pretty sick of grey skies and brown landscape so when I see a spot of color from early bulbs I get very excited and impatient. Stay warm and keep the mountain climbing to a minimum.
From what I’ve seen on your blog, it seems like your snow doesn’t stick around like ours does. However, if what we got in November hadn’t melted, I don’t think we’d be able to see out our windows right now. LOL
Oh my goodness, we’d be closed until August if we had that much snow!
I’d like to be closed right now! LOL
We are definitely above average here and I must admit to being a bit jealous of your snow. Although you are right, at some point you get fed up with it.
Love the photos of all the fowl on the porch. It just makes me smile.
Mara from the Netherlands
Usually I make it until March before I get fed up with it. There’s been a lot of other stuff going on here lately that’s made me have to drive in it a lot, and I think that’s what put me over the edge really!
So glad you enjoyed the photos, Mara!!
We are enjoying record snows this month! Hopefully it will stop for our travels in March. Driving is not fun in snow. Your place looks great in the snow. I’m sure for Luke being outside by himself gets boring. I know we don’t stay out in the yard very long if we are not both out there together.
Yeah, Luke just does not get into playing without his sisters. 🙁 I try to get him too, and he will run around some, but apparently I’m just not the same.
It does look pretty in the snow, doesn’t it? That is my favorite part of winter, the beauty. Though it’s less appreciated in March than December.
Plus, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten stuck having to drive in the snow lately, which I hate. I hope it stays dry for your travels.
Yikes that’s a lot of snow. I hope you have less snow in March this year. We need spring to arrive.
Have a fabulous day and weekend. Scritches to Luke. ♥
All paws are crossed for less snow in March here!! Bring on spring!! 🙂
Wow. Stay warm and dry out there.
We’re sure trying!! 🙂
Maybe there is hope for a snowstorm for me yet! My paws continue to be crossed!
There has been many years where a lot of snow storms hit in Southern New England and missed us completely. I guess that hasn’t been one of those years (though, yes, it could still happen)!
I hope that will not mean that you get another truckload of snow in march…. maybe miss spring is on the way and you will get a snow-less march
Our first March snowstorm is coming in Sunday night. I wish you had been right though!! 🙂
All we’ve gotten this year is rain, rain, and more rain. I’m sick of it! I need sunshine! Wednesday night we got an intense thunderstorm that freaked Ducky out. Shadow slept through it.
We don’t look forward to thunderstorms, but other than that we are so ready for spring and summer!
Ugh. I can’t even imagine. I bet it’s pretty interesting to watch the chickens sunning themselves though!
Cool comparison photos. Now I am curious if you could find any same area photos in a year very different from the last two, or is that not the case? I surely forget year to year!
There’s not really any more years we could go to, Lynn, since this is only our second winter here in the house. I do remember the year we bought it, there was not much snow at all. We put up the dog pen in March before closing and I don’t think there was any snow at all then.
They are definitely fun to watch, especially when they spread their wings and stretch right out!