Son of Snowmaggedon

The Weather Channel has run out of superlatives and is now reduced to the puny "February Fury."

I went out this morning and cleared off the car and the driveway. I loaded up the bird feeders for the first time this winter and had customers within the hour.

I did some work. I took a nap. I did some more work.

Just got back inside from a second clearing. My body has told me she has had absolutely enough for one day. As for the accumulation of snow, including last Saturday's paltry 4" - 5", I'm guessing there's 18" - 20" out there. It comes over the top of my Wal-Mart wellies. (I love my Wal-Mart wellies, bought late last year.)

Props to the Pleasantville Public Works department. They were rocking the snow plows from 7 - 10 am. Now that we've got another half-foot of snow on the ground, they haven't been seen, but it's still snowing pretty hard.

There are pine trees lining one side of my driveway. These are very large, very tall, very evergreen pines whose branches are now bowed down by the weight of the snow. I've checked them a couple of times during the day, relieved that one of them leans towards my neighbor's house. I went around my yard, freed the rhodo and the yews and boxwoods from their snow caps. After one snow fall, it took the whole summer for the yews to recover.

I put out more bird seed near the side door, which is semi-protected.

There are little bird foot prints in the snow there.