Another Snow Day!

The snow started before we woke up, and continues still this evening.  Twice one of those lake-effect streamers of heavy snow parked itself over us, and dumped a lot of inches fast.  I spent more hours than I'd like pushing snow off the deck, and snowblowing the driveway, in the swirling wind!

It's that dark green streamer passing overhead, then east to Barrie and on toward Peterborough that dumped the most snow.  I find this radar map on the Environment Canada weather site to be both really useful and accurate.  I use it year-round to check what weather is actually approaching.

I know you like pictures of those bright sunny days, but I don't want you to get an unrealistic vision of what winter is here.  So I've paired up some pictures from that sunny Sunday 3 days ago, with today's blowing snow, for your viewing pleasure.

Not a good day for driving here, several highways closed, and lots of local roads impassible.  Haven't seen a snow plow all day; they're busy on more important roads!

After spending several hours in the above freezing temperatures yesterday clearing at least some of our back deck off, I had to do it all again today to get rid of the 8 or 10" of light fluff that accumulated on top.  I'll probably have to do the same thing tomorrow morning again.

I finally went out and snowblowed the driveway even though it was still snowing, because I was afraid it would get too deep for my snowblower to handle.  It was drifting quite a bit in the wind, and I could hardly see what I was doing in the swirling snow.

Snow on our upper roof slid slowly off the edge yesterday, until it was a 6" thick curved curtain of snow, but this part never did break off and fall.  I'm sure it will come down some day soon.

In the meantime it's making the sewing studio very dark, hanging almost to the bottom of the window.  Those are two of Mrs. F.G.'s dolls guarding the window.

I enjoy winter, but I have to admit that I don't like being stuck at home all day and I'm getting tired of blowing snow!