Our driveway is challenging to negotiate at the moment, and will no doubt remain challenging for the next couple of months, probably into the first week or so of April. There simply isn’t anyplace left to push the snow out of the way. Fortunately, both of our cars can go in and out without too much difficulty. But, a pickup truck? Forget it.
Right in front of the garage
Right in front of the garage the driveway climbs up. A couple of winters ago we parked our cars in the carport which at the top of this rise, on the right side of this picture. Can’t really make it out through all the snow and frost covered trees, but it’s there. In mid winter walking up the driveway is no big deal. But, when the weather starts warming up and the days go above freezing, this becomes an ice rink on a slope.
Through the aspen grove
Even though the aspen trees are bare, there are a lot of them and they cast a lot of shade onto the driveway. About four inches of snow has fallen since the last time Dan ran the snow plow down towards the county road. What I really liked about this view is how much the upper branches sparkle in the sunshine. They are still pretty covered with frost from the freezing fogs we are seeing every morning.
Next to the garage is our woodshed
We had 8 cords of firewood when we started the winter, and at the moment we still have around 6 cords left. We aren’t sure why we have this much wood left since we have been keeping the house nice and toasty warm.
The sun is strong enough to clear part of the roof
Today we went down to the mailbox to get our movie from Netflix, “The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines.” There are three of these Librarian movies, and they are a hoot.
View from up the hill above our house
The county road bisects our property above our house, probably 100 feet elevation to this view. If we ever did build a small guest cabin, this would be the view from the deck of said theoretical cabin. With the hordes of company we get, there really isn’t that much need for a cabin and it will remain theoretical only.
Not much else is going on up here. Still doing just the same old things.
