Where's That Groundhog...

After three days of violent winds around our valley (strong enough to knock over our basketball hoop and shatter the backboard...now where's my duck tape?), things calmed down, cooled down, and cleared out last night. This morning this is what we woke up to:



I love this clear blue sky. With the wild winds it's been dusty, murky, cloudy. Bright sunshine this morning.

You can see my deep footprints...there's 4 1/2 inches of this lovely white stuff. I keep telling myself "it's all about the water, it's all about the water."



It's melting off the driveway pretty quickly now, although I did shovel off a bit because my driveway is on the north side of my home, and snow tends to stay there longer than on anyone else's driveway. Wonder how much will melt in the (predicted) 40 degree temperatures we're supposed to have this afternoon.

The Daily Ag Report
Oh, the chickens have finally started laying again. They're not very generous, though. Out of the four of them we have gotten two eggs in the last week.

It turns out that my snapdragons haven't actually started to sprout. There were some renegade alyssum seeds in there. But my dahlias are coming up too: seven out of the 20-odd peat pots have sprouted something.