I've Decided to call this season "Pre-Spring"

It's almost Valentine's Day. You'd hardly know it with all the snow we have here. So far this winter, the city of Worcester, MA (which is just east of Naultag), has received 92" of snow. That's more than 7 feet of snow!! 

To combat the winter blahs, I've been focusing on how many more days  until Spring. This morning I decided to start calling the remainder of this season "Pre-Spring." Sounds better than "winter" or even "late winter." In fact, my pastor's last name is Winters - I may start calling him Pastor Pre-Spring

Here are some photos of our snow so far this year:

Winter storm Juno - a Nor'Easter Blizzard 1/27/15

The Nor'Easter dropped 30"+ on us

Sasha's Cave 2/10/15

Sasha's Cave 1/27/15

Sasha, our Siberian Husky, has a spot in her kennel that we call her "cave." On the left, snow is forming a top and sides. On the right, taken 2/10/15, shows her cave is now an igloo!

This pile is 19' wide by 30'+ long and 8'-9' tall!! 2/8/15

Fence is almost buried! 2/10/15 

Winter Storm Alfred

Still two months to go before winter officially arrives and we've already had close to 1 1/2 feet of snow. If you live in the Rockies, you're thinking, "so what?" Well, we live in the Northeast. Halloween weekend is supposed to be about trick or treat and cute kids in semi-scary costumes. Sure, it's snowed on Halloween in the past - a kind of fluffy, wet, and very cold rain that didn't stick to any surface.

In years past, big winter storms were known for when the occurred: Blizzard of '78, Ice Storm of 2009, the April Fool's Day storm, that sort of thing. This one should've been "The Halloween Storm" but instead it got a name, just like a hurricane: Alfred. I just hope Alfred is an only-child-orphan with no family to come following his path!

What late October SHOULD look like in central MA

 

What October 30, 2011 ACTUALLY looked like

Kind of scary - good for Halloween!

Pretty, too, in an awe-inspiring way

Next post - what to do when you've had no power for 3 1/2 days and little hope of getting it back for at least 3 more.