We might get up to two decimeters (eight inches) of snow from tonight and until Friday afternoon so I decided to go to the store already today so I don’t have to drive in that garbage weather on Friday. I know, snow is pretty but I truly dislikes it. The only time I actually liked it was rather many years ago when I spent Christmas in a cottage even more remote than where I live now.
I rented a cottage back then in a region called Dalsland, close to the Norwegian border, and I had the best Christmas ever (I think that I have written about it here in my blog a year or two or perhaps even more years ago 🙂 ). Over half a meter of snow (much the same in yards), -28C (-18,4F), no electricity but a fire stove and my then two dogs and one cat. There’s no light pollution at all there so even if I can see lots of stars here it’s nothing compared to there. I spent an entire week there and as I said it’s the only time I actually have liked snow 🙂
Back then mobile phones just started to become popular so to hope for any kind of signal there was to hope for a miracle 🙂 🙂 🙂 I would have loved to live there but I think there’s a bigger chance to find a job on the planet Mars than in that region 🙂 🙂 🙂 Well I’ll have to endure the snow here no matter what but I do think that if I ever won the lottery I would buy something small in southern France so I could stay there during winter and move back here when spring arrives 🙂
I didn’t bring any digital camera with me on our walks today but it looks much the same as it did a few days back and I also have some wintery photos taken with film cameras last winter so perhaps I’ll put in a few of those. I think it is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I will not bake a mug cake today no matter how yummy it was so I’ll just have that tea and perhaps watch some tv even if I doubt that there’s anything I want to watch, there rarely is.
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Christer, I do recall from your previous posts that you are not at all fond of snow, yet the photos in this post are beautiful with the light shining through the trees on the undisturbed snowfall. So, the weather does give you some great scenics! So far, we have not had anything more than scattered flurries here in Nashua, NH, but a lot of very windy days.
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Hi Beatrice!
That’s an understatement 🙂 🙂 🙂 I didn’t even like it as a child 🙂
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Sometimes just making a pot of soup and getting out an old book can do wonders in the enjoyment of snow. Our cold weather is coming a bit late this year.
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Hi Goodport!
I wish I had had some rose-hip soup at home, that would have been perfect.
Earlier this year than last here and it’s all because of a high pressure refusing to leave Greenland I’ve heard.
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In Virginia, the leaves on my trees have all turned from gold to brown and the last stragglers are falling. I have so many leaves, I had to rake the driveway to find the edges of it. If I didn’t rake, when I back the car in, I can’t see the water meter right beside the driveway that sits rather high above the ground and drive over it, which can’t be good for it or the car.
I was toying with letting the leaves stay where they fall this year, which I’ve never done before. I think all my moss would love having that blanket. My yard guy can’t blow my leaves this year, so I have to find someone else. I usually have them blown down into the two back corners of the yard. What do you think? Blow or leave them alone? None of my neighbors have nice yards, so I don’t think they’d care either way. I’ve been reading articles that say we should all let the leaves stay to become fertilizer.
No snow yet, but the temperatures have been crazy. Sometimes freezing at night, but days can be anywhere from 50sF to 70s, so I never know whether to put on a T-shirt or a sweater.
I don’t think we will have much winter this year, but I hope we get a little something so I can wear my new boots with the thick snow-tire treads and not look totally stupid.
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Hi catsworking!
Personally I’ve never raked leafs in my entire life 🙂 🙂 That’s the way my garden gets any kind of fertiliser 🙂 Well I do give some to my flowerbeds and my vegetable garden but that’s it. I would however do it if I had big leafs like maple leafs because they tend to stay like a lid over the grass. so that told can start to grow and kill the grass. One could of course drive the mower over them but those big leafs can manage that too. I only have small leafs on my trees and bushes so I just let them fall and let the worms take care of them 🙂
We have unfortunately passed that clothing problem, cold all 24 hours a day now. I do hope You’ll get some cold weather so You can wear those boots 🙂 🙂
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I have mostly oak trees. The leaves will crumble and blow (into other yards) on their own, but there are so many, I don’t think most will politely blow themselves to the two sides of the backyard where I usually put them.
I have no grass to worry about, but just moss and weeds, which I think would like the leaves to cover them. Especially the moss. Since I cut down about half my trees over the years (from 40 to 20), the moss hasn’t had as much shade as it likes and gets pale, so a winter under leaves might revive it, no? We haven’t had much rain, so the leaves are staying fluffy and they’re quite deep in places.
If my yard guy was waiting to do them, I would just let him. But this year he wants to buy a truck to vacuum them all up, which I think is crazy because of the volume. Plus, my backyard is down a steep hill from the street, so a hose long enough pulling the leaves uphill would probably get clogged pretty easily. The whole vacuuming idea just seems impractical to me.
I’m sure I can find somebody to blow them, if I do it.
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Hi catsworking!
Our oak trees have really hard leafs that can survive a winter if it is cold but warm winters the worms do their job properly 🙂 To be honest, I would just leave them and see next spring if there’s a lot left or not. I guess the moss would appreciate some shelter from the sun so perhaps the leafs would help with that.
It sounds as if You have a really big garden so vacuuming it up seems like an awfully big job, especially if the leafs get stuck some where 🙂 🙂 So I think You’re right, blowing them away sounds much easier and better.
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