The day after - digging out

When the snow is the deeper than the height of the porch, I can't just scrape off the porch anymore.  It is so nice and easy just to scrape!   After we got the driveway and paths dug out, I put wood ash down on the slickest corner of the driveway.  We keep a couple of cans on the porch to hold the ash from the woodstove.  It isn't as good as sand if you are stuck, but it isn't bad.   And, it is free.

Storm

Big storm going on out there.  I went to check on the sheep and couldn't find the path to the barn.  I gave up shoveling  a route some time ago.  The wind just blows the snow off the field and piles it between the drive way and the barn.  I've been carefully walking along the route, packing down the snow as I go out and back twice a day.  I'm usually fine as long as I don't step off the hard packed part into deep snow.

Well, there was no way to find out where that hard area was with all the blowing and drifting, so I kept sinking, and it took me awhile to get to the barn.  I came back with my long shepherd's crook, and used it to feel ahead and fine the hard packed area.  That helped.

Spent part of the evening in the basement putting up new grow lights and thinking about getting the onion seed going.   It is a little late, but not too bad.     I put together some little wooden boxes for soil.  No one came down to find out what all the hammering was about.  When it is blowing like this, people stay put where they are, in front of the woodstove or under the covers.

We need to get dug out tomorrow morning so I can go to a gardening workshop.  Spring!!