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Winter is still hanging on!

Since my last post, we had one week of 'warmer' weather, temperatures in the low 40s, followed by continuing weeks of winter weather!
After snowing since yesterday afternoon it has finally stopped snowing, for the moment, but there is a "Winter Storm Advisory" in effect until 6 am tomorrow with up to 6 inches of snow that could fall overnight!
That is the way it has been too. The past few weeks temps in the mid to upper 30s in the daytime then back down to upper 20s and freezing at night and many of those nights, from 1 to 3 inches of snow.  Then light, fluffy snowflakes whirling around in the breezes during the day but not sticking because of the warmer air temperatures.

Above and below: all the photos here were taken yesterday morning, 03/08/2017 as we were leaving to go to work. Just showing the overnight snowfall of around three inches. As you can see, the tail end of the truck sticks out just a bit, so the snow builds up in the bed and in the area of the tailgate and bumper.



Above: a 'low' shot taken of the tracks made by the truck tires to try to show the depth of the overnight snow.



Above and below: Out during the drive on the way to town. It can look so pretty! It was still snowing again last night, though!


Also since the last posting, Stacy and I have taken the plunge with both feet, into some long-awaited home improvement projects. We started the total redo of our kitchen project which involves removing and replacing the flooring, removing a wall, taking out the old and installing all the new kitchen cabinetry with a large island. 
We can finally start this because Stacy's father is happy and has decided to stay at the assisted living facility he moved into late January. 
Everything like the original kitchen was only supposed to be more or less "temporary" and now it is almost eleven years later! So improve we will!
In addition to watching and getting ideas from channels like HGTV, we had a designer go to it with the kitchen and we really liked her design. 
I've been taking a lot of 'before' photos and will add them to a post when we get to the after photo abilities!

Right now, though, all this snow is NOT our friend with wanting to get projects done! We are very limited in where we can put things since it is still getting cold at night and there is still several feet of now hard as rock snow and ice all over the area and our property. We have a four to six week lead time on the new cabinets to be created when we order them and are working on the wall and floor first. Then we order the cabinets and hopefully have a place to put them by late April or early May. Our driveway is not wide enough because of the snow build up for any large trucks. 
Also, the county road department has closed many of the outlying roads to large trucks to help save the roads from severe damage with the spring "break-up" when the snow actually starts to melt causing instability with the ground under paved roads and unpaved roadways become bogs from all the moisture in the soil from the snow. So, we'll have to see what the conditions are as the time gets closer. 

With all the snow, there could be snow around until May in the shaded areas. The daily ski conditions report on the radio for the regional ski resort called Schweitzer, said yesterday morning the season snow total, so far, is almost 250 inches! They also extended the ski season to April 15th because of the still wintry conditions. 
Like I had said before, this is the most 'winter' we've had since we moved here!

Well, a quick update for now. Tad

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