We’re down to probably 8″ of snow in the yard. This has made life much more fun for Pi and K who, until this weekend, couldn’t even walk around out there. They love the snow. Pi especially loves to push her tennis ball into the snow, move it around with her nose, pounce on it, grab it, and throw is somewhere else.
The one tree that we lost is still laying in the yard (and will be for a few more weeks). However, the girls are taking advantage of it. They have turned it into a fort. Both love to get in under there and hang out.
While the rest of my world is buried outside, I have four toasty warm trees in my house. About a month ago I bought four dwarf citrus trees: a key lime, meyer lemon, naval orange, and grapefruit. They are pretty small right now, but they will produce fruit. The lemon has just started blossoming and hopefully will give us a few fruits this year!
Another foot-ish fell on us here in our nation’s capital today. The novelty has worn off. The girls and I are both feeling pretty cooped up. Here are some pics.
This really shows the height. You can the top of my blue toter recycling can toward the right and the tip-top of my 4′ picket fence by the trees.
I had measured 32″ on Sunday. Some of that melted and compressed between then and Tuesday. Today, it measured about 42″ which means something like 12-15″ more than last night.
You can see it’s almost up to the windows in front:
But Pi and K are enjoying it even if they can’t run around much.
I have power again and am happily working at home today. Before we get MORE snow on Tuesday, here are a few more pictures from the weekend blizzard, including my lost trees.
The obligatory tape measure picture - 31 inches
Pi and K trying to peer over the snow
The front yard
Pi and K, dwarfed by the drifts
My mighty cedars, might weighed down by the snow
The bent trunk of one that hopefully will survive
Pi and K resting at the Hilton down the road when we were without power on Saturday night
My little house has survived pretty well so far. The power has been out for about 8 hours and will likely be out at least through tomorrow. That means it is cold and dark…but not down the street at the Hilton where the girls and I are camped out! Here it is well-lit and toasty warm.
The yard didn’t survive quite as well. My side yard is lined with very tall cedars. They bowed under the weight of the nearly 3 feet of snow. One is lost - it fell over and broke off at the roots. I knocked snow off as many as I could this morning to save them, wading around in snow up to my hips.
Overall, I feel fortunate. A friend lost 10 large trees. Two broke through the walls of his house and more are resting on the roof. That is a great fear of mine. He has a good attitude about it, which I admire, but in the face of that kind of problem I can’t feel too bad for myself. $99 and a pet deposit solved our problems for the night.
We don’t get a lot of snow in DC, but we’ve had two “storms” in the past week. We got about 8″ over the weekend and it’s snowing again now. Fortunately, tonight’s snow is good snowman snow.
After walking the dogs at about 10pm, we stayed outside and made a snowman and two snowdogs. They helped: the noses are old stale peanut butter cups from 2 Halloweens ago, and Pi helped by eating one off the snowdog.
While building these, someone called the cops on me. He drove up very slow to my address, shone his light on me, and, upon seeing I was not suspicous, he turned around and left with a wave. He was quite amused that the suspicious person was either a girl making a snowman or the snowman itself.
I have now owned my house for two years. I have not given it as much attention as I did in the first year, but it has received some major upgrades this last year. I replaced all the windows on the second floor and put on new siding. I expanded the garden and have started harvesting a lot from the whole property. Decorating is coming along pretty well, too.
This year should bring a bathroom renovation and, depending on how things go, maybe a new driveway / walkway / front porch. Maybe, just maybe, it will also see an end to the kitchen renovation and an end to Cabinet Guy in my life.
