Our streak of miserable winter weather continues. Day 1 ice. Day 2 thunderstorms. Day 3 snow. Day 4 Howling wind and dangerous cold in the depths of the bleak midwinter.
Most of the day, the snow from 5-6 counties away blew in all day in single-digit temps. Late in the day there was a slight lessening of the wind affording the first view of the power poles a mile away.
No school today, with the howling wind and the snow.
Of course, the next thing is the dep freeze, and although it’s still blowing pretty good, I thought it better to get out and clear the driveway tonight rather than in the sub-zero morning. I tried to put all the pile to the south and est of the driveway so i wouldn’t create a source for the snow to drift behind. There are very few things more enjoyable than driving the tractor for purposeful work!
Emma had a hankering for lots of fresh vegetables and hot soup so she made up this Vietnamese Vegetarian Pho.
Here’s the completed bowl.
The process to prepare the ingredients was not trivial. What’s invisible in this picture is what it took to make the pot of vegetable broth – all the vegetable that were boiled away and discarded (to the chickens) to make the broth. It was a great mid-winter meal.
Here’s something we haven’t seen for a while – red on the radar.
Thunderstorms and 39 degrees.
Yesterday’s ice storm did not want to give way.
Martin thought school should have been a two hour delay – and he was right – he heard that 5 buses needed a tow – and his bus picked up kids from one of the stuck buses.
Even a common Queen Anne’s Lace looks more elegant encased in ice.
Even though I’ve got photo editing software that puts this effect on any photo, the following are real, undoctored photos.
The view out the kitchen window looking towards the doghouse and barn.
A maple tree in the front yard.
The detached garage. Everything is shut down this morning because of the ice.
I was hoping for a power blip or two as I finally broke down and bought a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) this week so the computer would work through power blinks and shut down properly during an extended outage with battery back-up.