WINTER/CLEANOUT PART 2

 

Well, okay, it's mostly winter. The snow is gone now (thank Grok for that), but it was perty intense while it lasted. Winter, though, lasts for quite a bit more than early March up here. Temps are supposed to top out at twenty on Sunday morning next and three to five is forecasted a little later.

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The dogs are good little plows. We got a little over twenty inches.

The dogs didn't plow this, though. I had a couple of days of rewiring scheduled for the next few days. The cellar was quite toasty compared to the fourteen degrees and fifty MPH winds outside. This was the easy part.

This had been dug out as a path to the shop when we got six inches. I thought I'd get a head start. Right.

Poor little birnahurnahurnads had to dig down for water. Of course it was ice. The stump below the bath is a little under two feet tall..

Once I dug my way to the feeder (after this was taken), I filled the emergency feeder (the green one). This was a very busy place for the next week.

Marley, being an Akita, LOVES the snow and stays out in it as long as it's sunny.

Took me almost four hours to dig out, including a path to the shop. The stepladder was used to get over the stockade fence the morning after; the gate wouldn't budge against the snow. Good thing I had it inside and not out in the shop.

My back was singing me songs after this, but the snow lasted almost two weeks, so I'm glad I dug it out.

The battle rages in the white stuff.

The best of the East after a tussle. Chinese shitzoo and Japanese Akita rest for a bit of a truce.

Happy little showoff 'cuting.' 'Cuting' is the active form of 'cute.'