Bit o' Blue
Some days you just have to look to the heavens. Last week we had one of those exciting cloud days with pretty much cloud cover all day. It was hard to see them moving, but they were. At one point, when I was up back, the sky broke to display this patch of blue. It didn't last very long, but you got an idea at how fast those clouds were motoring. Things were moving fast like the approaching holidays. I'm just happy 'lake effect snow' doesn't move fast or travel long distances. Elenka's cousin Irene and her family live in Hamburg, New York, the epi-center of all that snow last week. Most reports coming from the area were saying they got close to 80 inches. Yikes! Before Thanksgiving? That's scary. We live near the deepest lake in Maine, Sebago, but you seldom hear the about snow building off the lake. Let's see five days until 'turkey time' and I still have a few outdoor items to take care of this weekend: birdhouses taken in, some leaves to be mowed about, a couple of loads of wood to be moved to the garage, kindling to be chopped and stacked in the woodshed out back and the porch roof to be secured.
These will keep me honest till turkey.
Hopefully the snow will hold off until March.
Ya, I'm dreaming.
I do that a lot these days.
Nice blue sky you got there, for at least a little bit.
ReplyDeletei second that gratitude. just incredible what they've gone through and it's not over.
ReplyDeleteHose? :-)
ReplyDeleteOh ya! Bring in hose. Thanks!
DeleteIt's a good thing you retired or you'd never get all those chores done by Thanksgiving. And you would have probably missed this beautiful hole in the sky! Don't work too hard!
ReplyDeleteNice blue sky, only clouds here...
ReplyDeleteHow on earth does one deal with 80 inches of snow? It seems you would have a hard time getting your doors open to get out.
ReplyDeleteLots of chores to keep you busy until the big meal! Did you happen to see the episode of "Finding Your Roots" where Sally Field found out that one of her ancestors sat at the head of the table for the very first Thanksgiving?
I know it was a terrible storm but a part of me would have liked to experience it...
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DeleteThere are thousands in the Buffalo area who would trade places with you in a minute. For sure. Irene for one.
DeleteMy question is - if you have that much snow, where do you plow it to? The whole thing sounds so horrible and it is above freezing here now so it must be melting down there too. And lots of rain to come.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your photos and dreams with us!
ReplyDeleteBy being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. Edwin Elliot
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By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. Edwin Elliot
Beautiful clouds & nice to see blue sky. I just can't comprehend 80" of snow.
ReplyDeleteExcellent clouds.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous skies!
ReplyDeleteWell, the Great Lakes, of course, are really big, so lake effect for certain areas mean different things. My grandparents had a farm in the snowbelt area east of Lake Huron for years, and they could get some really bad snowstorms.
New England is relatively lucky not to experience the Lake Effect. When it is benign it brings gray, cloudy skies. When it is bad, it brings loads of snow like the Midwest and western New York got. We can deal with most things so long as the skies are blue.
ReplyDeleteHappily, you have the time to dream now.
ReplyDeleteRemember the old Broadway show?
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
We don't miss that lake effect snow, for sure. . . Spent this weekend taking down the screens . . .glad for the dry weather to do it in.
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