Winter Yet Reigns Here.

2-19-23 VERMONT: It’s still winter here. We came up yesterday, an easy trip on a sunny day.  We have to be here for the heat pumps installation and chimney sweeping next week. There are auctions also. 

When we arrived, there was no phone service and no burglar alarm. We contacted E.C. Fiber and got some help that got the cell service going, and then called Tasco Security. Tasco’s technician came out and fixed the alarm system and the phone service, on a Saturday evening. 

Places in the yard and pasture that get more sun are snow free, but where there is deep shade the snow is still six inches deep. All the snow is ice encrusted from warm days and rainy days that are followed by freezes. The road was muddy yesterday when we arrived, but frozen today.

Today is overcast, breezy and about 38°. I walked out to the end of the pasture with Maizie and the camera. The horses’ Mom and Dad took them for a walk on the road to give them some exercise. Neighbor Steve was out with his tractor collecting sap from the buckets under the maple tree taps—sweetness on the way. Thursday we might get new snow. 

I filled a bird feeder after we arrived, and today the chickadees and nuthatches are busy eating sunflower seeds. There was a red squirrel on the snow underneath the feeder. 

The houses and garage while I was on my walk.

Maizie following me.

Peaches in front of Raven.

Maple trees giving it up.

A fox near the new pond with black legs and ears.

Not a fox, taller no black pigment, Coyote? Fox hunting?