Snow on snow
It dawned on me this past
weekend that our farm has had snow on it (at least on the shady side)
every day of December! We've had four storms (I think --- they're
starting to run together), and the new snow always falls before the old
crystals thaw. Perhaps we were accidentally transported to New
England?
I'm looking forward to a
return to the South this weekend with Friday and Saturday's highs in
the mid 50s. Maybe I'll be able to get to the greens currently
hidden by snow, fill up the thousand
gallon tank with
wash water for January, and even do
some laundry.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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We had snow in November, and the second white x-mas in a row. Both of which are pretty unusual in these parts. We got around 25 cm of snow around Eindhoven just before x-mas, and in the nearby province of Limburg they got 40 cm which was a record. The last time I saw this much snow here must be around 30 years ago!
While this is probably not much compared to places like Canada and Siberia, it was almost more than we could handle. Even getting groceries by bike of on foot is a challenge with this much snow.
If this keeps up in the coming winters I might have to get snow shoes or langlauf skis!