Spring is in the air? Really? I don’t believe you! Part 4
Melting, wait, melting more, wait, snow and freezing rain? This is NOT Spring! Ha! I thought we were done with all this Winter stuff! Part 4? Yup…
We can’t get rid of the lake ice this year it seems! And then just when you thought you dodged a freezing rain bullet, another gets fired your way! April Fools was yesterday! C’mon Mother nature, cut us some slack! Ha! Ok, she did grant us a bit of Aurora the night of the 22nd. OK, thanks for the light gift but can we work on the weather!
A friend on Facebook a lake over posted about the aurora so I popped outside, then came back in and bundled up! It never ceases to take my breath away! Those colours. The camera certainly picks up more than our eye can see but the red pillars were really visible but it faded quickly!
Now, back to the weather. We are lucky we didn’t experience what friends further South and West of us did with the freezing rain. Their power is STILL out! We had the generator set up, gas, check, lots of food, check, cat food, check, and wine, of course;) It can be so pretty, but so destructive! We are fortunate only to have had a light coating and by mid morning most had melted away, but the SNOW! Why 6″ of snow? Ha! We declined a plow as the road is so soft a plow would scrape whatever gravel is there to the sides, didn’t want that so Sunday we stayed home, accessed the damage, waited for it to melt!
We waited Monday as well. Friday I’d canceled a Doctors appointment for Monday, glad I did. It was 4″ of slush on the road, with ice on top in the morning. Not nice, now who took the snow tires off early? Hmm…I wonder;) By late morning most of the ice was gone. I sat outside and watched the birds dance about on the icy branches!
We had our first male Purple finches show up as well as a female Red Winged Blackbird! Nobody was impressed by the snow and wind!
“Ya have to be kidding me lady! More peanuts!”
The Mewberries went out after Mike blew a path down the driveway…spoiled they are! Groot said it was OK until some Turkey Vultures started to circle, he hissed and growled and decided it was best to go back in…”I’m NOT dead yet!”
I walked down to the canoe after some of the ice had melted. Admiring the artwork it had created. The sumac seeds were covered on the windward side, already melting.
The ice was falling from the trees and landing in yesterdays footprints filling them! It was pelting the roof and piling up on the ground. A steady tinkle of falling branch cubes! There were a few loud cracks as some dead branches gave way under the weight of the ice as the wind picked up. Then an odd low level fog started to envelope us, it had a strange tinge of green to it and the temperature began to rapidly rise.
The fog came and went, we even had a brief bit of sun, then back to clouds!
Happily we only had one power flicker just before supper. No need for the prepped generator. It was Mike’s birthday on the 30th. I baked his cake the day before, in anticipation of losing our power with the freezing rain, he enjoyed it a day early, sharing with his boys:)
Just how long our third Winter will last remains to be seen. Here I sit, anticipating another night of possible snow, freezing rain, and or torrential rain…may the gravel Gods protect our road;)
The Robin took it all in stride, hey, it’s just Spring, ups and downs…it will eventually all go, that white stuff…eventually. Sigh….
In the mean time, we will sit tight. Our Lanark County Camera Club meeting has been moved online tonight, just as well. I think I might have inherited Mike’s scratchy throat…Spring cold time as well. Ugh! I’ll leave you with these two Spring lovebirds…a Hooded Merganser pair we passed down at the Narrows Lock in the small bit of open water they had. Such cool looking birds with their punk do’s. Time for a tea, and a rest. I may have spent too much time outside this morning watching the otter eat fish on the ice…I couldn’t resist…stay tuned:)
