Karl was finally able to share a blizzard with his family! As the weekend was drawing closer and the impending storm, the Navy decided to have the major meeting scheduled for Friday moved to the Thursday before. This allowed Karl to work from home on Friday in the comfort of his safe warm home. We had already stocked the house with milk and eggs as I put a large ham in the oven to become the basis of several meals during the home confinement.
So what makes this storm different than December storm, this one had ice and white out conditions. For those not use to the term, "white out" means the snow is falling and being blown at such a speed that on can loose their direction due to the lack of being able to see clearly. Karl and I tied to keep up with the snow, but eventually we had to just cozy up in the house and wait it out. The next day was bright and beautiful with 30 inches of fresh powder.
Finally we can see the path of the deer to see which areas where we need to build barriers to move them in a different direction!
The one above is taken from the driveway towards the area behind the fort. The one below is the gate from the house to the orchard.
In the early morning, the frost coverings were delightful against the fence.
Apparently this is the most snow this area has had in the last decade or two. So we should not expect it again for quite a long time. Of course this did not prevent s from getting out as we needed to find a solution to a problem creeping up. Karl was flying out early Monday morning, leaving the house at 4am. Not an ideal time to drive for most of us, so we needed to get Karl's car mobile. This meant moving large amounts of snow so his lower to the ground car could move. Solution, we borrowed our friend's snow blower and made a slightly larger than vehicle width path from the garage to the main road. It took us all day, even with a blower. Partly because the truck got caught in a snow drift when we returned due to the county plows dumping more snow onto the entrance to our street. After four hours I told Karl I did not think I needed to work out today, I was sore enough from the scraping to get down to the pavement before the sun started to drift down and ice up everything again. And Karl was still able to get a flight out, even if he had two re-bookings and an unintended layover in San Francisco on his way to..... Honolulu. He had better bring home some fresh pineapple!!
