Friday, January 30th - is this the calm before the storm?

Conditions at 5:15 am: calm and -16' that's feeling a little more like -19'
Expected later: a nice day with -4' but we have another winter storm warning for tonight

A peek inside that very organized garage!

Thursday was an absolutely gorgeous day. The sun shone pretty much all day and the temperature was just a little below freezing. It would have been a lovely day to be out on the ski trails somewhere instead of sitting at a desk looking at it through a window!  Not sure what tomorrow will bring as we are expecting some kind of precipitation in the form of snow and/or freezing rain overnight and into Saturday.  Fortunately I'm off and hopefully it's not too bad by the time Lloyd leaves work in the morning.

The snow bank at the end of the lane

 We spent Wednesday morning getting dug out. The plow showed up just about the time I was meant to be leaving for work. There was a huge drift across the road but once the plow went by, the road was open but now all that snow was pushed into the end of the lane. Frank next door was working at getting his tractor going so he could clear his own yard to enable him to get to us. Lloyd and his new snow blower to the rescue! He was able to clear a narrow path through the large drift in front of the garage and then chipped away at the bottom of the lane. The upper part of the lane had barely any snow on it as it always blows right off but the bottom part more than makes up for it if the winds are coming in the right direction. (It's still NOTHING LIKE the year the girls from Ontario were here and we almost lost Pat in the snow banks walking up to the house!)

But we got it cleared, and the freezing rain that had fallen after the snow, was melted off my car so I was actually on the road by 8:30 and at work by 9:00,  not so bad.

Tonight I'm meeting Brenda in town after work and we'll grab a bite to eat before heading back out to the country. Other than the weather, not a lot is going on, and it's looking like it's going to be another quiet weekend as well. But perhaps Lloyd will get to go out and play in the snow again with his new toy!

And maybe, just maybe, we might be able to get out on our skis on Sunday.

Lots of snow on the left, and grass peeking out on the right