Meh. That's our Wednesday....

which blows my whole mind after that lake-effect doom storm.

A good friend of mine in Providence RI hasn't seen her car in 5 weeks...

We pruned our fruit trees today with a light jacket and rubber boots on. Send some of your snow west, please.

Some friends and I have actually been discussing a Keystone-like pipeline from the East Coast to the West Coast - filled with gravel and other purification methods - to transmit all this moisture out West. Because this is the deal for us now; the term "mild winter" in New England is going to go the way of the dodo.

Crazy? Might be necessary at some point...and if the dickheads can pipe tar sands oil from Alberta to Corpus Christi, surely we can pipe melted snow water from Springfield to San Diego. Their pipeline leaks? Everything dies. Our pipeline leaks? Flowers grow.

We're having (pretty much) a nicely snowy winter here in Michigan this year .... but we a HORRIBLE winter last year (record snow and record cold).

There are moments of great beauty, some cool fun (as pictured in your OP) ....but mostly it just sucks

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in the Boston 'burbs - he has six feet of snow on the front lawn and 9 feet at the end of the driveway where the plows dumped it.

kickety!

The elderly gentleman who lived in my house from 1952 to '72 had a picture from when the snow drifts where above the door. He had made a similar tunnel to be able to get out of the house.

He was my neighbor for many years, though recently he moved into the local "Veterans' Home." He was still out shoveling snow in his early 90s, though. I remember once, when he and I were shoveling around our mail boxes, Fred saying, "Forgive me, Pat. I'm a bit slower than I used to be." I asked him if, when he lived in my house, he noticed that the driveway got a lot longer in the winter? He said that he did.

Winters like this are ones that we'll long remember. I just wish it were over now.

I need help shoveling out my barn.

I broke down Thursday night and found some guys to shovel the snow off the barn roof yesterday morning ahead of the next incoming.

They did a great job, but now I have a mountain of snow against the sliding doors. I'd left the front door wide open and they kindly shoveled a path for the horses to get in and out. But now that door is stuck open and the other stuck closed until, I don't know, July or so.

Meantime, my old body is getting really, really tired of shoveling.

This post is just a way for me to procrastinate before I head out and get started. I just can't bear the thought of facing the snow mountains...

That could easily collapse and suffocate anyone in it.