Just a quick check in to let everyone know we're still here. This has been our week. We estimate that we have about three feet of snow up here on the hill since Thanksgiving day. It is difficult to tell because it all compacts over time. But we have had no melting in between snowfalls. Our buildings are positioned in a rather unique way which causes the snow to drift heavily into certain valleys.
Back in the day, the previous residents avoided this by heavily planting rows of Hemlocks right up against the house. Most of these trees were gone by the the I arrived twenty plus years ago, but we have continued to remove the mature (and crumbling) trees near the house to the point where it seems the drifting gets worse every year.
And I mean Right Up Against the House!
But with the original roof being so flat, what choice did they have?
Anyway... we have a lot of heavy, dense snow compacted on the roofs. It is up past our knees in the lawn. And they keep saying that next week it could warm up to the mid-forties and rain. That will be a mess. Roofs can collapse under that weight. So, we have been keeping up on the shoveling, working on one section each day. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We have some huge snow piles... and it is still snowing.
I am working on a Christmas craft though. I will fill you in on that this week.
Your neck of the woods has been getting hammered. We have about 3 inches but it's very cold! Hope you can get all the snow off your roof.
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