What a difference three days make,
when a thaw arrives over two of them. Both yesterday and today the
temperature reached mid- to high-40s, didn't even drop below freezing
last night. (Feb. 8, 2009)
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days ago |
The lot's melted down to dirt, the
snow is disappearing.
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days ago |
Even Mt. Chip Ahoy is diminishing.
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The path is clear, including its thick coating of ice. I
used lots of rock salt yesterday and did a lot of chopping to loosen it
up.
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days ago
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From the kitchen side of the house toward the street, with dinghy
in foreground. |
From the kitchen side of the house toward the
shed and back to the bird feeders. |
The unburied picnic table furniture.
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Hey, there was a dingy beneath that igloo
-- I'd wondered where it went!
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days ago |
This is the first time I've seen its bottom paint in a
long time. |
The re-covered tarp held up perfectly, and even the snow
depth around Chip Ahoy is going down, granted slowly.
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The paths out to the shed and back to the bird feeders.
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4 days ago |
The two paths out to the bird feeders out back.
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