Love It!!!

Love It!!!: "You really need to be from the Northeast to fully appreciate this:



'...screamin' go back to Taxachusetts' - I think I spit out my coffee on that one...

That is all.

"

Ice Dams

Ice dams are taking their toll on a lot of homes around town. We went for a drive to Nashua today, and found it common to see 10-12" of ice sitting at the edge of roofs in the area.  A lot of people out trying to chop through the ice and still more shoveling the 10-24" of snow off their roof.  So far we're doing ok, and most of our ice dams melted off the one or two warm days last week.

Gordo

Gordon "Gordo" is getting big , ok, big for him, he's enjoying the snow as long as it's snowblowed...

Sittin' with Papa

I got home late one night last week, James decided to climb up and sit and chat with Papa while I ate dinner. Good times!

Computer Geeks

The boys were over last week with their computers.

Jason with his Leapster





James with his Leap Pad

Harley's Mountain

Harley... sitting on Top of his mountain of snow in the front yard. The cold just doesn't seem to bother this one. You can usually find him sitting up on his mountain of snow with an Icicle in his mouth, he and Gordon have decided this week that the shrubs around here need a trimming, so they have taken to breaking off any and all accessible branches. (And when I say accessible "everything is accessible" because we have 6+ foot piles of snow bringing them eye level with all of the shrubs around here.)

More???

Another 6 to 8 Inches is due on Saturday...

Not so bad here in NH

So "The" storm of 2011 has just about finished up here in Southern NH.  We had a good two feet on the ground and probably added another 14-16 inches on top of that the past two days.  I finished the once around and am heading out for round two clearing the cars, paths, and widening the walkways, etc.  Filled the bird feeders, and the roof is raked, I have concerns that if we don't get some melting soon we may have issues. (It's supposed to be 39 degrees F on Sunday I think)


Rose noticed that there were tracks in the snow going through the field over by the woodpile, and then over to the cove, judging from the 3-5 feet between tracks we had a Moose run through the yard overnight and a fairly big one at that. 

Saw this odd couple in the old Apple out back waiting out the storm. 
 

Snowmageddon! or maybe it's Snowpocalypse!

 Oh we're in it now,   6+ inches so far on Tuesday 2/1 and still coming down, and on Wednesday 2/2 we could be looking at an additional 24 inches.. of SNOW.    That's on top of the 24+ inches on the ground before today!

I'm thinking it'd be a great time to be in Florida!

Big Snow Day January 12th

Now this is a Snowstorm! I Like It!

There was 10 to 12" of snow on the groung when I woke this morning at 6am. The weathermen/women were predicting 7-10" and another station predicted 8-12" up until 11pm last night.

I went out and snowblowed a path to the barn and around the house for the dogs. By 12 noon we had a solid 16-18" it's now 3pm and there is a good 4" more on the ground and no sign of letting up, one station predicted it'll go until 8pm tonight.

Almost no road travel (other than plows) one or two cars an hour traveling southbound down Rt 114. We're getting out the tape measure next time out.

Snow day for Harley! He's loving the snow, the other dogs not so much.

New Hampshire's "January Thaw" 2011

January 1, 2011 
January in NH, got to love this weather, temps in the 50's, shopping for the grand kids with no jacket on. We  returned to the house to find 2" of mud in the driveway something I dread in the spring, this was just a taste. 


Funny 
At 1/1/11 at 11:11am, "All Ones..."  Weird, I called Rose to show her. I just happened to look down after loading up USAToday on my Ipod Touch...  Ok fine, it struck me as funny though.


Crazy Cardinals
I noticed a couple weeks ago one of the Cardinals sitting on the Van drivers side mirror.  I didn't think a lot about but had pointed it out to Rose, She then noticed herself and after watching them sitting on the mirror, they'd jump down to the window ledge and then back up on top of the the mirror again.  The Cardinals were looking at themselves in the mirror.  I noticed today all the bird droppings on the door window edge and on the mirror itself.  I suppose if it's good for Parakeets then why not Cardinals?

Happy New Year!