Well, my daydreams of spring came to an abrupt end this morning as I opened the curtains. The ground (and consequently my decks) were blanketed with about 20″ or more of wind-blown snow! In some places it was more like three feet b
ecause strong winds during the night had caused huge drifts. DARN…I so want to see spring!
WLBZ news center had the snow totals for many parts of Maine tonight. I have shown a photo that I took of the TV. We are approximately fifteen miles from Dover Foxcroft.
As you might imagine, we spent the day cleaning snow. I cleaned the decks and hubby hurried to snow-blow around all the buildings before the snow plow guy came. The plow man can do a much better job for us is we run the snowblower before he gets here. After all the plop, plop of falling snow from the roof that we heard yesterday, one side of our roof had about a five foot drift in the valley so after cleaning the deck, I had to use the roof rake to take part of that drift off. For those of you that don’t live in snow country, snow—especially the wet sticky stuff like we had last night is extremely heavy and has been known to collapse roofs because of the weight. Needless to say, most of us are quick to get the roof rake out after a storm like this one. 
I have shown a photo of our house from the back. Note that the snow is piled up to the deck in places from us shoveling it off. Our decks are over eight feet high. The path is what we use to get to where we feed the deer. It was about to my hips today.
I am so ready for spring. Spring will come a bit earlier for me this year. On March 12th hubby and I are heading south for a month. Hopefully, by the time we get home, the snow will be gone. Oh yeah…then comes mud season (sigh).
Good gravy glbuzz I sure hope the snow is gone before you get back from Florida! Mud season – UGH!
I sure hope it is gone by then too, Coppertop. The winters just seem to keep getting longer.
GL, your house looks much like mine from the back! And, pooh! I’m soooo jealous of you heading to Florida for a month! Whereabouts in Fl? My boys both live on the west coast.
Wish we could see the ocean from ours, like you do.
I am really looking forward to FL. We are driving down and will spend a few days with son and daughter-in-law in DC and then keep heading south.
We are going to spend four days on a trawler learning how to run one. My hubby thinks that he(we)would like to do some cruising and he is trying to convince me that I would really like living on a boat for months at a time (sigh). The boat that we will be on is based in Dania (near Miami) so we will head down that way to start. When we leave the boat, we will probably head for the Fort Myers area. We went there last year for ten days and really liked the area.
Yikes! I was just doing a post and griping about the cold weather here. But wow, here it’s just cold, at least we don’t have it piled up to the second floor like you do! Stay warm!