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It’s finally starting to look like winter around here, albeit a few months late.
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Sunrise over freshly fallen sparkling snow never gets old.
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But along with overnight snow, we’re getting sunny warm days and that means icicles.
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Pretty, as long as you’re not standing underneath one when it falls.
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I love a snowy landscape…
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There’s just something about it that makes me slow down and say, ahhh…..
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A melting and refreezing winter means ice. And ice means icicles.
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I don’t know why, but this one downspout on the edge of our garage always puts on a show.
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A few years back we measured it at four and a half feet. Of course come spring, all that melting and freezing will yield this:
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And that’s not nearly as much fun.
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I still haven’t discovered where the local emus are hiding, but from the price of those eggs I’m thinking maybe we should start raising them. $15 a pop? Yikes!
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Our resident projectile has melted halfway, split and refrozen.
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47 inches and still anxiously awaiting an unsuspecting red squirrel to wander by.
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In other news…. my husband received his first Covid vaccine shot this week. Yay! No side effects other than a slightly sore arm for a day or two, though we’ve heard most people are experiencing flu like symptoms after the second shot.
Shots.
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Sorry, that’s where my mind went.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten is starting to get used to having his picture taken.
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But that doesn’t mean he enjoys it.
Yikes. If looks could kill…
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Oh, we weren’t talking about ice? Well, I am now.
We had ice this year.
Lots and lots of ice.
The shovel the snow off the driveway, watch your feet slide out from under you and land smack on your ass kind of ice.
Everything was covered in sheets of ice for weeks on end.
Of course this made for some pretty fabulous icicles.
On the garage, they started out small.
But then they grew.
Which made getting in and out of the garage rather perilous.
Did I mention this was the section of the garage I was nagging the husband to put a new gutter on all last summer and fall?
Maybe now he knows why.
River's world..... 