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What Karl and I did on our lunch time walk

“Aren’t you ready yet????”

Karl’s impatience is usually justified as it often takes me 3 or 4 back in the house trips to be satisfied that I am attired appropriately for the conditions. Today, however, I only went back once to exchange gloves for mittens – that hardly counts ;)!

The temperature had risen to 14 by 10:30 a.m. but dropped back to 11 by the time we departed – me on snowshoes, Karl on 4 feet – at noon-thirty.

A good time was had by all, even if I was seriously out of breath at this point. Part of that is due to the photo taking. I enlisted a handy stump for a quick try at an action shot. We are a little fuzzy but some of that is snow being blown off tree branches. We ARE both looking in the general direction of the camera – hurrah!

The house …smoke from the chimney…hot coffee and back to work.

They nailed the forecast

Four inches of fine, powdery snow fell overnight. I shovelled the walk when Karl and I walked down the driveway in the dark. It is still snowing, but it is only 10F. The snow is so fine and light, it is hard to shovel as it wants to fall off the shovel before I’m ready.

Bob stood on the front porch and looked like he might be having second thoughts about going further, but after some thought he proceeded on his morning rounds as usual.

It is cold enough for the bear dog to use his pillow-bed but not yet cold enough to require the nose be covered with the tail.

It appears NOAA nailed the forecast. It is calm here in the mountain wind shadow but the town weather shows winds from the northeast at 20 mph, gusting to 38 and a wind chill of -10F.

Snowshoes are ready for our lunchtime walk. Maybe it will warm up to 15 by then.