We woke up to a bit of snowfall on the farm today. I did my usual wake up, check the news and the weather, but even after seeing there was a chance of snow this morning it didn’t really hit me. I stumbled out of bed and over to the full-length window on the balcony door, and there it was. Large snowflakes falling with a decent amount of force. No messing around, this was snow! It was coming down! I caught the photo above after I came downstairs, and the snow had almost stopped. But that weather forecast said that the real snow would be falling this time tomorrow. So, there’s that to look forward to.
The mud still lingers under this mess of snow. It was starting to harden up a bit yesterday, and there were beginning to be places where the tips of the muddy mess were starting to turn dry and earthlike in appearance. Despite all that, the drive up the side of the house is still possessed with a spot of basically quicksand that wants to swallow the tractor right up. I can’t get past it. The car is dead next to it and needs to be pulled out to even try. It’s just not been that important that I want to do that yet. But soon. We have been getting to the point where we can walk the muddy yard and not lose our balance on slippery mud at the surface, but it was more a cake of mud that was traversable. At least before this very recent event.
Lucky there’s things to do out of the house today. I can go on, and not worry about it. A few parcels due for delivery will take up my afternoon as I explore the new things I have coming. I also have a daughter who has a report we are working on for school. So there is plenty of diversion from what is essentially depression at this point. More than half of the yard near the house is inaccessible. That makes some chores quite a lot harder to do, and who wants that when there is a tool that is supposed to make them easier sitting out front? There are also so many spring chores I am very eager to get started! But those are constantly being pushed back by this mud hold. Snow today. Snow tomorrow. I keep my eye on the large pond that has covered most of the field behind and to the side of our house, hoping it will sink into the ground and go down. If it stays, it puts a serious impediment on getting a new septic system put in. While I am so glad we have water again here in the west, I needed it to be dry like it has been in order to get that done early in the season.
I got external mics for the GoPro setup yesterday. I should now be charged up and ready to make videos where I can actually walk away from the camera, and still be heard. Basically, there is no excuse. We are set to make halfway decent videos for YouTube. Just need to invent content, now. Oh, and have something to so.