Snow

 Yesterday I posted a short video of the snow. After I took that video it stopped snowing, I thought that would be the extent of the snow for this year!!

Last night it started again, this time a lot heavier and a lot longer!

This morning I woke up to this!

outside my bedroom window!

outside the front door

around the yard

Looked lovely.

The plan was breakfast, wash dishes, quick shower and out to shop.

Breakfast was okay.

Turned on the hot water to wash the dishes, no hot water! Checked the bathroom, same!

The water is gas heated. The set up isn't that good. The cold water pipes are all under the house, which is why they didn't freeze! To heat the water, it is pumped up from underground to the heater, which is on the back of the house and then into the house. The problem is that the pipes are outside the house and not insulated at all, just some tape wrapped round them!

the pipes bringing the water to the heater

A quick search came up with a few ideas, such as using a hair dryer to defrost them. The one we went with was using a freezer bag filled with hot water and placing it on the pipes!  I was sceptical but it worked!

Of course this meant that my schedule was off.

David came back about 10am, he is still working nights!  He said that some of the roads were still bad even though the snow was starting to melt! He counted about 10 accidents, cars that had skidded off the road or into trees!

We don't get snow here very often, not every year! The past 5 to 7 years I've seen more snow than the first 20 years here altogether.  I've never seen any gritters out, maybe in the city centers but not on the country roads!  

We finally got out about 12 o'clock.  First stop was the bank, but it was closed for lunch!  That is how countryside this area is!

I wanted to go to a supermarket in a small town about 30 minutes away. Somehow we took a wrong turn. We ended up driving past Costco. I still haven't been but at least I could see it. I was surprised at how busy it was. The parking lot is big and was almost full!

I was trying to get some photos of the mountains but on my camera phone it wasn't that easy!

Looks like it was still snowing on some of the mountains

This was the view from my bedroom this afternoon.

Cold mountains

The white patches worry me! They are areas that have had landslides, there are no trees or undergrowth!  Does that mean there is a possibility of a larger landslide?  

Tomorrow I'm out all day! I have one lesson but Mikey has back to back lessons. So I'm going with him in the morning and will spend the day hanging around!  Hannah called, she has work in the morning but will meet me at lunch time.  Something to look forward to.  

Snow is forecast for Sunday afternoon so I'll have to figure something out for the pipes before then!

I wonder how many more surprises this house is going to throw at us!