More Snow, More Clothing

It snowed yesterday, it is snowing today.  It will probably snow tomorrow.  It snows often here, fortunately not a lot at a time.  In 1954 12.7 inches of snow were measured at the airport.  Personally, I'm voting for frequent, but not a lot. 

There are things to be learned about living in cold country, and yes I know it's worse in Montana or Wyoming but I would never be there.  Yesterday we made pot roast in the slow cooker.  When we slow cooker we like to put it outside so we don't have to smell food all day.  It was about 16F (-8.88C) when we put it on the front porch.  At the time we wondered how that would work.  As it turns out, it worked badly.  After leaving the poor thing out there for 4 hours we brought it in to where it was warm, and it cooked like a champ.  The plastic you see in the picture is a crock pot liner, which is one of the great inventions of our life time.  Pull it out, close with a twist tie and clean up is done.

We bought mittens yesterday.  They are very furry inside and are large enough for glove liners and hand warmers.  They're water proof, wind proof, and are insulated with DownTek, which is a water proof down.  Here's hoping they do the job for the finger tips.  I think merino wool long underwear will be next on the list.  We knew this year would be shockingly expensive given the addition of winter, but next year will not be so bad.  Our REI dividend will be noticeable.

We have not had wet snow thus far.  Here is Jim with the leaf blower removing snow from the driveway.  It's like sand.

This is a very short video I took by mistake because my fingers were on the wrong button.

Last night there was a pretty good sunset.   The camera could not see it, but there was a column of sunset.  It wasn't big, but it was impressive going from the ground up into the clouds.

Today we had planned to drive over to Walgreens for a rapid Covid test, since we can not buy them anywhere.  However, today's snow fall convinced us to cancel.  At this point it would have been moot, anyway.  Last week, 10 or 11 days ago actually, we were both feeling kind of punk.  Today was the first appointment we could get.  According to this graphic, it would have been wasted effort.  A PCR test would have been worthwhile, but they're scarce.  It's sort of like The Hunger Games.

We do have nice neighbors, here is one out doing the sidewalks.  The landscapers apparently no longer consider it as part of their job description.

It's currently 15F, so it's not likely that there will be snow shoeing.  Jim has a pair of furry pants like the ones I bought, so perhaps I will break down and hem them today.

From the department of things could be worse, this is a jack knifed semi blocking all lanes of east bound I90 south of Spokane this morning.

That's it!  That's all there is to report.