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So how do you walk in fresh snow? I can't imagine it would be easy. Do you just step in and sink to your calves?
Today's snow was very dry light and fluffy. If we had any wind it would blow away quickly. It did not stick to my vehicle nor windshield at all. It fell off very easily.
It is not my habit to drag my feet. However in this stuff I purposefully drag my feet. It makes a well defined trench behind me. Each trip that I make out to the chicken coop or goat shed or vehicle parking lot, I make these trenches. If the weather should turn warmer to sleet or rain, and then re-freeze; it will all harden in place. Then those trenches will remain tomorrow and will allow me to walk in them.
Goats have very tiny pointed hooves, which does not allow them to walk well on top of a frozen layer of snow. They punch right through it. So they will stand in one place and whine. They do not like to walk through deep snow banks.
I made these trenches and if the snow stays and re-freezes, then the trenches become paths that the goats will walk in. They do not like to step outside of these paths that I make.
But as you would think, had snow fell, and it re-froze once. Then it makes a thin crust on top. Step on that crust and you punch through, sometimes if the snow is thick you fall down to your hips if it is deep enough.
We have ditches alongside of our driveway. One foot of this light snow, can blow around and it will look like a smooth level blanket. Fooling you that there is really a deep ditch there underneath the snow. It is still only a foot of snow, but there may be places where you step and fall through until you finally hit solid ground. A flat level smooth field of snow may deceive you into thinking that the ground is flat. Or that the ground is ground, it might be a creek or pond.
Isn't it wonderful?! I showed it to my kids yesterday when they got home. They were wide-eyed and gasping, "Wow! That's a lot of snow!! But how will we learn how to make snowmen?" Of course, that's the first thing to enter a child's mind.
Don't know exactly how much we ended up with but only about 6 or 8" of light fluffy snow. Boys are getting ready to go roll around right now. They closed the schools because it was wicked windy last night and was supposed to continue this morning as well. Hard for the drivers to see with hard blowing light snow so they canceled school. Should make for some good drifts in the usual places.
I'd venture a guess that at this point we have about 20 inches or so. Not really blowing around too much, but it seems packed in spots. Our goat feeder down in back is almost buried, and we made it 23 inches high. Snow is still coming down, and hubby has been out for 24 hours so far, had 2 hours of sleep so far. Wish it would stop soon, I'm getting tired of doing chores and doggies and shoveling all by myself. lol. Didn't go to work today as my friend that I nanny for called and said she wasn't venturing out, so don't bother, unless I wanted to visit. I'll probably head over later when I go to town for feed. Hope the roads get better!!!
Noticed that the last couple of years, you guys down south of us, but just north of Bangor have been getting it worse than we have further North. Not that I am complaining though!
I have to mow the lawn and trim the hedges and dead head the roses today!
Let's do a psychic test here. Can you tell what I am thinking right now?
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Of course, that's the first thing to enter a child's mind.
