Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Hoping we don’t loose power on this Tuesday evening.  It has snowed hard all day.  Until about 5:00 this afternoon, then the blacktop started to go from the black where the snow just melted all day, to deepening layers of white.  To look up the pond reveals pretty much a whiteout.  It is hard to look up the pond though because the wet sticky snow has stuck to all the windows. 

The Weekend

Carol here ~

We went to Readfield on Saturday to an art exhibit with work by Maranacook High School students.

Our granddaughter Kailey had four of her pieces on display.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening. The wind she does like to blow. Lately the wind has been blowing quite steadily. I did see an eagle the other day, first one in a long time. I’m sure they hang out on the other side of the ridge where there is open water, but on this side fishing is still a little hard. I have been noticing more and more open water like areas on the pond. It’s almost like the pond is thinking about spring. I’m ready, anytime works for me.

The dirt road that we are forced to travel for about 1/2 mile to get to the house has become almost painful to drive down. At low speed you are forced to bounce up and down as each pothole is entered and exited. The truck dodges and weaves as it is thrown around trying to get down the road. If you speed up, it can get a little better as you then spend less time residing in each hole. This transfers the bouncing to more of a shuddering as you rattle along across the tops of the constant potholes, many of them contiguous with the one before it. Then there is always the possibility that you chanced going too fast, and bounce about out of control and hit a tree. If doing so on this Old County Road there is an excellent chance that the tree is dead and will break off upon impact and fall on top of you. Much like at the roulette wheel at the casino at the top of the hill, one takes ones chances driving down our dirt road.

The moon was quite bright last evening, this is the picture I captured leaning out the studio window.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Sunday evening from the studio. It would be way too windy for a fire tonight even if it was warmer. That time hopefully will come. Much of this weekend was spent in the relocation of snow. 

We received about a foot of the white winter precipitation. The snowblower worked great. I blew all the way up to the top of the driveway to throw the snow out into the woods. I shudder to think where the plow guy would have put all the snow. I don’t really think that the plow guy will be considered a necessity in another season. I’ll need a sand guy and that’s pretty much it. The snowblower makes a much, much neater driveway than a plowed one does. Luckily the wind did not blow while the snow was light and fluffy. This meant that there wasn’t and will not be much snow blowing around.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Tuesday evening. It snowed hard today. All. Day. Long. At least it was light powdery snow. If the wind comes up I will get some assistance in the relocation of the dang stuff. The wind probably won’t put it where I want it, but it usually does a decent job of removing it from the roof of the house. I relocated about 6 inches this afternoon. I have to remove it from the Shelter Logic, our frame shed with the rip-stop cover. Much like the greenhouse of my past life, they will take a lot but, only so much. Much easier removing the snow and cleaning out beside it, then seeing it collapse like you see a lot of them as you drive through the countryside. They are handy. That’s where my tricycle is. On the new shed roof the snow usually slides off pretty good. At least so far.

#14 for 2023 is complete. 

2023-14

 

The Weekend

Carol here ~ 

Daugher Vanessa and grands Kailey and Jakob come over for a visit on Friday.  It was wicked cold and windy but we managed to get outside for a while.  We snowshoed on Mud Pond

and the kids went sledding.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening. Waiting on the second batch of snow we are supposed to be getting. I managed to get most of the 6 or so inches we received during the first event cleaned up and relocated. Now I wait to see if the second event amounts to anything. If it does I guess I’ll relocate it to where I want it and prepare for the next time.

#13 for 2023’s top is complete, it is for son-in-law Lucas. This top amounted to a little more than two of the previous tops.