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Skybird · 02-07-21, 03:01 AM

... after having shoveled snow for one and half an hour. 66 cm on the streets and pavewalks around my house, still 45 on my balcony. I'm feeling old!

We have not had that much snow since 15 years.

My poor squirrels... The tree and bushes where feeders and water and woolbox and such are located, worked like a snow net, forming a snow bank that reached to my shoulders. It was a fight to get there and free the imprisoned nuts and unfreeze the water - the latter I am prepared to do several times today and tomorrow, just in case one of the fur noses dares to push it out of its nest, which occasionally they must, no matter how bad the weather is (no winter sleep, just reduced activity and metabolism, they cannot afford to build fat depots).

Still snowing, this fine, dry powder-sugar-like snow that piles up higher and higher and gets everywhere like fine sand, that sort of... Actually the snow layer may be just 40, 50cm, but the wind piles it up to higher banks, at least here in my street and around my house.

02-07-21, 03:01 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,717 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Arms like pudding ... after having shoveled snow for one and half an hour. 66 cm on the streets and pavewalks around my house, still 45 on my balcony. I'm feeling old! We have not had that much snow since 15 years. My poor squirrels... The tree and bushes where feeders and water and woolbox and such are located, worked like a snow net, forming a snow bank that reached to my shoulders. It was a fight to get there and free the imprisoned nuts and unfreeze the water - the latter I am prepared to do several times today and tomorrow, just in case one of the fur noses dares to push it out of its nest, which occasionally they must, no matter how bad the weather is (no winter sleep, just reduced activity and metabolism, they cannot afford to build fat depots). Still snowing, this fine, dry powder-sugar-like snow that piles up higher and higher and gets everywhere like fine sand, that sort of... Actually the snow layer may be just 40, 50cm, but the wind piles it up to higher banks, at least here in my street and around my house. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 02-07-21 at 03:34 AM.