Winter is here in full force. We had 8 days in a row, where the overnight temperature was below zero. As of today (31st) we are at 14 days and counting, where the daytime high temperature was less than 32 degrees. On the evening of Friday the 21st, a very large winter storm arrived and stuck around until lunchtime on Monday the 23rd. The storm left us with 14 inches of powdery snow. Our BMW car collection is no stranger to snow; the cars were designed and built in Germany after all. But… they need a plowed road, because none of them have more than 5 inches of clearance. No problem. The storm was predicted more than a week in advance. A shopping list was made before heading into town. The pantry, refrigerator and liquor cabinet were fully restocked. Figured we could go 2 weeks without having to leave the house. On the funny side of pre-storm shopping: I witnessed a woman in Krogers with a full shopping cart of groceries, and…. two large 24 roll packages of toilet paper. lol
In other news, I began a long overdue inside project to fully build-in the kitchen refrigerator. The fridge is located exactly where it needs to be, with a loose wall cabinet perched on top and nothing on either side of the fridge. I need to fit and install a narrow filler panel between the double wall oven cabinet on the left side of the fridge. The right side will be more difficult. I have purchaed an 18″ wide 90″ tall kitchen cabinet matching the rest of the kitchen. The fridge is angled into the corner of the south and west wall of the kitchen. The plan is to cut up and remake the square shaped cabinet into a triangle shape. The long side of the triangle will butt up to the west wall. The short side of the triangle will be 18″ wide cabinet doors facing the great room. The hypotenuse of the triangle will be parallel to the right side of the fridge with enough clearance to allow pulling the fridge out for maintenance.
The picture for this post shows the driveway and parking area after the 14″ of snow was plowed on Friday the 30th. I held off calling anyone, knowing they would truly be crazy busy with higher priority businesses, parking lots, etc. A friend recommended a guy who lives nearby.
I did follow through and purchased new tires for the truck as promised in the December summary. I got that done a couple days before the winter storm arrived. The truck has not been outside yet.
Finally, the project to make friends with local crows is proceeding slowly. Everything I have learned says: LOTS of patience is required to eventually earn their trust. Crows are extremely intelligent and also wary/cautious. I can confirm that. They frequently fly off when they see me bringing out food for them. Carole gave me a couple books about crows as a birthday gift. Their extremely cautious behavior is expected from what I have learned. Slow and easy as they say. I’m in no hurry. Visit youtube and search: crows being smart.
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