Life in Antrim

Can you believe it?!?!?

We may have gotten an inch of snow, and school has been cancelled all over! Yes, it's going to get worse later in the day (it is snowing lightly right now)...but jeez...

I'm sure I'll be breaking out the snowblower tomorrow morning (or maybe late today) though...

(Presently 22.3 degrees Fahrenheit...)

First use of the snow blower...

We had enough snow yesterday and overnight to warrant my using the snow blower today. It was my morning exercise -- and yes, it actually does require some energy to use it :-)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

I was just about to write that this was our first "real" snow this year...but as I think of it, while I was away in southern California there was a decent amount of accumulation. If anything, I'm wondering if the town fathers will request the Lion's Club stop meeting for the remainder of the winter -- the last snow was on the 7th...postponed (due to that snow storm) until tonight :-)

Kind of a wimpy one though -- shovel only. Yesterday I did get the snow blower in place for future ones...

If you click on the photo you'll see a larger version...

More flurries...

We have flurries outside...with minor snow predicted over the weekend. My beautiful wife says even more is due Monday-ish...

Flurries

I can't say I expected it...we have light flurries in Antrim right now...

I'm preparing for a trip later today to southern California. Darn! :-)

Snow!!!

Based on looking at last years blogs, the first snow was back on October 22nd (although the first accumulation was on the 23rd). As you can see, there isn't a whole bunch on the ground right now, and I don't expect a whole bunch.

(Hmmm...Accuweather.com disagrees with me. Their forecast for today: "Cloudy and cold with a little snow and rain, accumulating a coating to an inch." Tonight: "Considerable cloudiness and cold with snow much of the time, accumulating 3-6 inches." Perhaps we'll see who was right with a picture tomorrow.)

And speaking of pictures, this is the closest one I've gotten of one of my favorite birds, a Downy Woodpecker. I probably like the Hairy Woodpecker (pretty much the same bird but larger) slightly more...but I think you can still see why I enjoy seeing them so much.

It would be a better image...but generally the only way to get critter-photos is through window glass (as this one was).

If you click on either thumbnail you'll get a larger version.