Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

65°F and another .01 inches rain.

Another positive day yesterday. Today will be cleanup. The Cottage tenants come home today from their mainland holiday travels. Hope they have good news regarding their property purchase.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Rescued a kitten snowed under the porch this morning, her mom was following me through the snow desperately meowing, I stopped and listened and heard Sassy through the few holes that weren’t covered. I dug down beside the steps and used the handle to punch out under them. Out pops the 7 month old, been there a couple of days I guess. She joined Mom and headed to the deck box that has the food.

Good for you.
Our neighbors outdoor cat has been in our garage during this cold spell. Wife put in a cat bed the other day, it will barely leave it. It has litter box, food, water. Cat is loving it. Still pretty cold in insulated garage, but not like outside.
10° and very windy out.
Just went out to pickup a UPS delivery, cat acted like it wanted out, got to the door, changed it's mind, went back in garage. Lol. Smart cat.

 

[LouNY]

It's almost still morning;
Went out at 8:30 started the tractor, did a little bit of shoveling started plowing, finished plowing, topped the fuel tank on tractor up, even went and changed the filter on the bulk tank hand pump.
Now it's time for more coffee temps clear up to 1 degree F now at noon, after a bit I'll go to town to pick up some odds and ends.
looking out the kitchen this morning 6 to 8 " dry fluffy snow from 4 Jan storm
View attachment kitchen door snow 5 jan 18.jpg
one of the piles, blade is over 8 feet up
View attachment snow bank 5 jan 18.jpg

 

[daugen]

Now there's some serious snow, great pics Lou. I like the icicles on the cab.
I think we drive the same truck, Ram 1500

 

[LouNY]

Now there's some serious snow, great pics Lou. I like the icicles on the cab.
I think we drive the same truck, Ram 1500

I push quite a bit of my snow to this location so it builds up some,
I got kind of a fancy truck for my retirement, a 15 Ram 1500 Big Horn with the little eco diesel,
been a good truck so far about 46,000 miles on it now.

 

[daugen]

I look at Lou's well equipped powerful tractor, a real snow machine, and flash back to my teenage years.
John Deere B with a snow blade out front, manual turn, and manual hydraulic blade lift.
Pumped my arm off. The steel green seat was incredibly cold, the steering wheel was cold, but that tractor pucka pucka'd
the snow year after year. Our farm lane was about a third of a mile long, three parking lots, barn doors to dig out, then when done
I could go make money with that tractor going up and down our country road.
I'd just drive up and meet them at the door, usually greeted with a Bless You and Are You Warm Enough?
and then I tried not to hit anything lurking. My first IED's...with a foot of snow, which was not unusual, and you are on someone else's property with no
lane flags, well good luck not hitting something. And i sure tried to keep the blade from scalping up the gravel. Bad enough I had to clean up my own endless gravel driveway.

I can just imagine how much fun that would have been if I had Lou's tractor back then instead. Like coming out of the Stone Age.

I'd go home really cold, wet, tired but with a pocket stuffed with cash. If you want to earn you just have to work.
Never slowed down since. Well now I have.
Nice snow machine Lou.

 

[LouNY]

this was one of the previous snow pushing tractors , then I splurged for the new one;

this was a couple of years ago, it is a lot nicer plowing now

 

[toppop52]

My driveway.

 

[toppop52]

 

[toppop52]

Ironically I was supposed to go pick up a Kubota with multiple attachments yesterday.
My little Cub Cadet would have laughed me in this. My son in law is sending the Calvary.