All that snow

All that snow, all that deep deep snow had to go… We have been graced by an end of winter storm, on the order of about 22 inches deep. So I spent the better part of yesterday morning digging out. It was not that bad is the snow was relatively light compared to the last storm where we had rain and ice pellets mixed with the snow.

A few days earlier, the temperature was 70 degrees! That led to this:

And how did that happen? My mother came over to visit and pulled off into our “parking area” which had previously been frozen, now thawed into a morass of sticky, gooey, clay like material. I came home and saw my mom’s car parked there and I though, yep, this is going to be trouble. The funny part is, when I was getting the car unstuck from the mud, my mother was standing outside. I did not realize that as I was backing up, mud was spraying out from under the wells and headed in her direction. After I got out of the car, I saw my mother, who was mostly splattered with mud, including a big blob right on her forehead. I started to laugh, good thing my mom is a good sport.
In the spring, which by my calendar, is only a few days away, I will get a load of gravel for that area and turn it into a parking spot.