Look at the Lawn Tractor of Argghhh! Sure, he's not tracked. And he got stuck once - but self-recovered, Murray - and 4 inches of really wet snow is about all he can handle - but is that not a snow-eating grin? Happy to be an all-season tractor, and not just sit silent and morose in the Shed of Argghhh! during the winter.
This is the vista that greeted us this morning.
And this is what it looked like before we tidied up the little bits. We'll have to do it again later today, no doubt. Advantage of living on a snow route - your street gets cleared. Disadvantage, the city keeps dumping snow on your sidewalk and telling you that you are required to clear it off your sidewalk. And then they come back and... dump snow on your sidewalk. We're better off than our flanking neighbors. The snowplows took out their mailboxes last night. One reason we have the kind of mailbox we now have is because the city, and idiots with over-large mirrors kept taking it out.
The ice storm last week took out a lot of power. Around here, the local power company has been aggressively exercising it's tree-slaying easement to remove threats to the powerlines. The Inner Bailey suffered from their depredations this year - but if you were home, you could force 'em to trim. If you weren't home, you came home to a pile of neatly stacked firewood and no tree.
Anyway, we don't worry about that overmuch in cold weather here at Castle Argghhh! Here's a shot of SWWBO yesterday with 9/11ths of the reason why we don't worry about it over much, at least from a warmth perspective.
