Serves me right for saying “winter is easy this year” … yesterday we were hit with about 6″ of heavy wet snow; not too much when we got up (maybe 2″) but it kept going through much of the day …
At work, more and more snow as the day progressed:
It took me about 3/4 hour to clear the driveway when I got home, so that we could park our cars – GBMINI is not at all keen to climb over snowbanks!
The first day of 2006 begins, with snow everywhere – but only a light 1-2″ … The weather has not been much below freezing recently so the bubbler created ice hole in the pond is quiet large – and you can sometimes see fish slowly swimming underneath:
It would be nice to think that this years winter will be easy and mild, as it has been so far – but somehow I think it will get worse in the next two months (it always does!)
Todays weather was a bit of a surprise – the forecast was for a few inches of snow changing over to rain, and that is what we got this morning. The drive to work was OK and by lunchtime when both Margaret & I headed home, the weather was basically just rain.
We headed out for lunch in Gloucester and while we were there the weather worsened again – suddenly we saw a flash and heard a rumble: a winter thunderstorm! It is called “thunder snow” here and is uncommon.
The weather quickly worsened further to total whiteout – it took us about half an hour to drive the couple of miles back home, and when we finally got there, we discovered that the power was out too! We sat in candlelight and hoped power would be back before the house got too cold … As evening came, power returned and the storm blew away – leaving us with a great sunset!
This evening, noticing how pretty Joanne & Earles christmas lights looked with snow over them, I headed out to take some pictures:
In the morning, we will have some shovelling to do!
M&I / GBMINI 
