Snow continues

Yesterday's post ended on Tuesday of last week. The snow continued to fall, just not as heavy as it had been.

On Wednesday we went out for groceries and a few errands, knowing things weren't going to get better.

The roads weren't good.  This is a main road near us. The constant snow made it hard for the plows to keep up.  Also, the temps were in the low teens which causes salt to be ineffective in melting snow and ice.

Dark clouds with an occasional sight of blue sky.

When the wind was blowing, it was hard to see.  (Don't worry - Bob was driving, I was taking these pictures from the passenger seat).

These are the woods I like to walk in, but that doesn't happen in this season.

Here's our street. Our house is just past that big pine tree.

Here's the house, in the snow again.  We remarked several times how thankful we were for a warm house.

We continued to get snow, about 3-4 inches every day from Tuesday to Thursday.

Bob was hanging out in the basement, occupying himself by working on this puzzle of WWII aircraft. It was too cold to get his woodshop warmed up, so he was trapped in the house.

But look what happened Friday!  We had a sunrise we could see.

Our little shed in the back was getting buried in snow.

Here's a graphic put out by our local news station on Friday.  We are right in the middle of that purple spot and got 26.5 inches of snow.  Schools were closed all week long. I don't remember that ever happening before.

The snow stopped, and then the cold moved in. This is from Saturday morning when our temps were the lowest they've been in 32 years and just 5 degrees higher then the all time low record.  We are between Holland and Grand Rapids and were at negative16 degrees.

This was my little experiment on Saturday.  I saw others doing this so I joined in. This is one of Bob's denim shirts. I got it wet and brought it outside. In 10 minutes it was frozen stiff.  It's not propped up on anything, just standing in the snow. I should have stood it up a little better, but I was too cold to stand out there and fuss around!

It's still cold and snowy this week, but it's better than last week!  And I'll really enjoy Spring when it arrives.