31 January 2022

Snow Day

Snow days are … different up here. It snowed 20″ or so in our immediate vicinity on Saturday. The roads seem to have been plowed and treated by 7 AM on Sunday (and the plows were keeping things clear enough on Saturday). No schools are closed or delayed this brightly chilly Monday morning that I can find.

I was up at 7 AM on Sunday morning. I got the coffee started on brew, and geared up. I moved the car back, shoveled out the front porch and a couple of feet in front of the garage doors by hand. Then I fired up the Cub Cadet snow thrower. It took a little under an hour to clear all the snow from our driveway and side parking pad.

Driveway cleared after 20" snow blizzard on 01/29/2022
Driveway cleared after 20″ blizzard on 01/29/2022

Then it was back to the shovel. I went around to the back and cleared the drifted snow from the two basement access slider doors, then cleared the stairs and the back upper deck, which had about 3 feet of snow drifted against the double slider there. All in, just under two hours to get all the snow I needed cleared. Then I took the [[SPOILER ALERT]] and chatted with our neighbor Myra, she had a plow coming so I didn’t need to help her out.

Things I noted – people tend to appropriately stay off the road, for the most part, up here when there’s an active snow event. And people mostly seem to know how to handle the snow and ice when they do drive. We went out and spent some time [[REDACTED]] yesterday. If I’d been out and about 12 hours after a major snow storm in Maryland, there’d have been cars off the road and in the ditches everywhere. I didn’t see a one, yesterday.

Spoiler Reveal

So, we actually got Georgia Aileen, our newest rescue pupper, on Jan 23, 2022.

Meet Georgia Aileen, our new mixed-breed rescue dog. She's a black on white American bulldog mix, about 35 pounds.
Meet Georgia Aileen

She got on a transport in a crate with a bunch of other dogs in South Carolina on the Saturday. We picked her up at a meeting point a few miles south of Portland, ME. She’s a sweetie with an intermittent habit of chewing things. She’s smart, acclimated quickly, and already hates winter up here. Grin.

Georgia, our rescue mutt, inspecting her yard via the paths I cleared for her in the front yard.
Georgia vs snow…

There will be much more about this new addition to our family as we get to know each other. I think she’d going to need some socialization trainings sooner than later.

The spoiler alert redaction above: Walking Georgia over to say hello to Myra.

The redaction above: Taking Georgia over to an enclosed mall area to spend some time walking about in a neutral space getting acclimated to her cousin (Nancy’s black lab, Raven).