And thankfully enough I had the last 3 days off and was able to call off today.
Monday started the clearing the 350' or so of walkway to the pole barn by the road, along with a 25x25'-ish pad and another 125' or so of driveway. We did it 10' or so wide, past the actual driveway to help keep the passage open through the storm.
Monday was around 4-5 inches of snow, with knee deep drifting on the south side of the line. Good weather for shoveling, cleared the whole drive pad nice and wide with a high snow wall on the south side to cut duneing down, with some goodly salting and sanding in the pivot points on the pad.... and about 1/3 of the walk dug sidewalk wide.. the rest of the walkway only one shovel wide. Took several hours.
Tuesday was another 3 inches and we cleared everything off in a couple hours. Snow wall works nice :) Another round of salting and sanding the pad.
Overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday we ran out of gas to run the furnace- well fuck. Good thing I had already set up a space heater in the vestibule Tuesday morning and had cranked up all the floorboard heaters to help superheat the house in case we lost power.
Wednesday was a big FUCK NO. Didn't even try to go outside it was so sub-zero with snow and blowing around. So the couple inches that fell didn't get cleaned off- and pretty much the whole walkway was drifted shut again.Spent the day inside cooking and buring candles and setting up heaters and dehydrators...
Today was me digging out the walkway over a couple rounds out since it was all almost 16" deep again, and mostly my love clearing the driveway of it's 4-5" of snow while I finished up the walkway and pad. Almost a replay of Mondays snow with all the additional overnight crap and minus the nasty dune in the driveway.
The best part of it being so gall darn cold is that it has made the snow light for shoveling. But it has been so cold I set up a box fan blowing from upstairs to downstairs to help keep the pipes in the basement from freezing. And with losing the gas on the furnace at the worst time sucks.
Oddly enough, the storm has broken and temps from Sat-Mon are supposed to be warm enough to melt most of this off. So I'll be able to call the fuel truck in next week.
As part of keeping the house warm has been a lot of cooking. And burning candles. I like the combo of warm wax of unscented, spice, and pine to warm up the nose along with burbling stuff on the stove and in the oven.
Monday was a batch of chili, with ground turkey, a couple cans each of kidney beans and diced tomatoes, and a whole lotta onions and spices. Served up with shredded cheese, sour cream, and corn chips.
Tuesday was a pot of tomato sauce and meatballs- made with whole frozen tomatoes from the summer gardens and pre-made GFS meatballs. Served up with angel hair pasta. Roasted off a whole baker of garlic heads and made some yummy roasted garlic compound butter.
Yesterday was Mom's Casserole. I put it in a slow oven and let it burple for hours. Also found one last tub of fresh mushrooms in the back of the fridge, and they were big caps. So I busted out a tin of crab meat and we had some crab stuffed mushrooms too. Baked off four squashes- they were the last of what was good, had to toss a couple too. And set up dehydrators of onions pulled from the frozen solarium.
Today is a pot of soup. I started out thinking squash soup. Needed to pull out a bag of chicken stock from the freezer. Then got to thinking perhaps squash for another day, Matzo Ball soup today instead in light of all the other leftovers in the fridge. Left the squash pulp in the fridge and instead burbled up a frozen chicken boob in the frozen stock. A bit of diced taters, sliced carrots, handful of celery and whip up some matzo balls. yum.
My love has some good job action going on. I do too, and seeing how it goes. Just trying to sit tight and ride out the cold right now.
My love has some good job action going on. I do too, and seeing how it goes. Just trying to sit tight and ride out the cold right now.
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