Looking Just Like Winter.

12-27-12 VERMONT: We arrived long before the storm did. The snow didn’t start until late at night. When we arrived, I shoveled the deck and steps, filled the feeders and watched Diana, Eliza and Clara clear the pond for skating. The pond had about three inches of old snow, as did the deck, and after about an hour, both were clear.

This morning everything has about six inches of new snow with more every second. It’s in the thirties and there’s almost no wind, so we’ll snowshoe around the pasture to get the dogs aired out later.

The chickadees and nuthatches are working the feeders. Yesterday when I went to fill the feeders, I found that a red squirrel had eaten through the plastic cover of the feed bucket and eaten the top two inches of the sunflower seeds, of course leaving all the empty husks. The squirrel was still in the garage jumping around up above the rafters and complaining about the invasion of his [her?] space. All the fussing attracted the dogs who ran around the garage floor barking and chasing the squirrel up above. None of them got anything out of the exercise, except exercise.


Eliza and Clara moving snow.

The pond is hockey rink sized, and almost clear.

Oops, not clear. The great thing about shoveling snow is that you get to have all that fun all over again almost every day.