Hi!
Well we got yet another snowstorm last night...that makes one storm per week, for 3 weeks now! 15 inches two weeks ago, then 8 more last Wednesday, and last night another 8 inches. Our house total is 31 inches.
The thing is, it doesn't melt in between! Ha. You get to a point where...there's NO PLACE ELSE TO PUT IT...??!?
Here are some photos to try to give you an idea of the volume. (We are
not even close to Vermont and Maine, however...their average annual snowfall is just ridiculous.)
You can only reach so high, when you shovel. Great loads of thanks to our fabulous neighbors, of course, who ease our burdens by clearing the driveway with their snowblower. We kind of "share" our drivew
ay (it makes kind of a "V") and they clear the whole thing with it.
That "only" leaves us the walkway, the deck, the sagging awning, and...the dreaded ROOF. Yes, another New England thing, I think I've mentioned before. Sometimes the snow on the roof melts a little in the sun, then that freezes, then more melting, an
d it creates "Ice Dams." The water then pools, and seeps in, and starts to leak into your house.
So now (after one leak 2 winters ago, in Teresa's bedroom), we Rake the Roof, too. Here's a photo of the house--I did the whole back side of the roof, up on the ladder, and decided that was all I had in me...I only did half the front.
I will say, it is usually Frank who does this! He doesn't pawn off the hard stuff on me. But this morning I felt energy (don't worry...it's gone now), and I got in some snow-clearing.
Anyway, it's a drop-dead gorgeous day.
Happy Weekend coming up!
Happy New Year 2023
3 years ago
2 comments:
I have thought of you and my friend Liz (who lives in I think Wakefield but I might be making that up) every time they talk about the snow in Boston. Yes, I am jealous.
That's different-raking a roof. Whatever works right? We get the snow, but we also get the wind. A chinook they call it. A warm wind from the west that melts the snow. But sometimes it is an awful wind. Tonight we are sleeping in the basement. The wind kept us up last night and we won't have any more of that.
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