Snow!

Both the above and below were taken late yesterday afternoon.  It did not stop snowing before dark.  I do not know if it stopped at all but I did look outside sometime between 11:00 and midnight and it was snowing pretty hard.  

 

I did not do any shoveling yesterday, though I did clean off the front porch.  You probably cannot tell, but somehow the wind whipped the snow from the back of the porch to the edge and that is a snowdrift on the edge of my porch in the top photo.  Where my steps are.  So I did clean the steps off somewhat.

But I shoveled today.  Not all I need to do, but enough to get back.  From the back to the garage was probably 10 9inches of snow.  But directly behind the garage was only an inch or two.  Out front was probably just 5 or 6 inches.  So got it shoved from the porch to the sidewalk, and the sidewalk out front did so if the mailman comes, he won't have to wade snow up to my door as he must have done at some point yesterday.  

I had mail, but had not seen any tracks...when I went back out there today, I could barely see tracks in front of the porch.  None on the porch or none leading up to the porch.  Just those walking away...and they were barely noticeable.  

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For fun a couple little videos from my daughter.  The first one shows her reaction if you ask if she wants to go to the basement and play.

And the second one is showing her and Delta's love of snow.

This and that...

  I guess you have heard we have a big snow predicted...starting Wednesday night.  I did make the time to get in a supply of catfood today...we dare not run out of their food.  When I came home from there, before I even got out of the car I spotted an eagle.

I had to run in the house and grab my camera and get back out...it was fairly high up and north of us quite a bit.  It was circling, and part of the time I could not see it when it turned a certain way.  That is how far it had gotten.

This is a cropped portion of te photo...you can click on all my pics and open bigger.  Or if you right click and choose to open in a new tab, it will usually open even bigger. 

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I had to do a few things inside...besides put away what I had bought.  And I did set for a few minutes.  Also had to take Roger's glasses to have a nose piece put back on.  I doubt if tat was 15 minutes total time...

I decided since I had ran all day long that I might as well go to the strip pits...Roger went with me.  We were not disappoint.  Though the snow geese were not very active, about half the lake was covered with them...the half farthest away from us.  But the White-fronted geese were active...though no good pics of them.   You may think these are Canada geese but they aren't.  Thought I like the white-fronted geese, I miss the sound of the Canada Geese.

 And several swans went over....

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What I really wanted to share was this little video that popped up the other day.  

By way of the strip pits...

I had to run to Walmart the other day...and needed some grocery items.  I decided to go to Super Walmart, since our little walmart does not have much in the grocery line...so I ran through the strip pits.  Much to my surprise the Snow Geese are still coming and going.  And of course there were a few swans.

I thought I would show you a bit of the excitement.  The numbers are almost unbelievable.  I think there was more that day than when I went trough the other day.  And as I came home from Walmart about an hour or so later there were even more but I could not stop because of freezer items I had.

So, I am letting the photos and the video do the talking.  The video is not good quality but you can get the feel and the sound.  Even above the way the wind hits the microphone.