April 19, 2021 Snow Pictures...

 This has been an odd day for me.  I had a fairly restless night, I slept initially and then I woke up around 4:30 AM and could not close my eyes.  I finally turned off the alarm system, got up... put Miles out, fed him, and crashed.

I felt like I was walking in a fog.  So as Miles was eating his breakfast, I laid down and woke up to find it was almost 11:30 AM.

To say my day was shot at that point was an understatement.  The bad thing is I am still feeling fatigued.  I know that COVID has a fog brain component, so I am suspecting this may be a side effect of the vaccine. But by the same token, the two previous nights were also tossing and turning nights, so this morning may just be my body catching up.

I did finally go outside and took my daily pictures of the"Breakup" that is going on here in my little part of Alaska.

In picture 1 of 6, you can almost see the entire fence that is next to the garage.  And the snow inside the area in front of my bedroom window (the big window on the right) has shrunk so you can now see the entire rail around the front of the little deck.  It was almost completely hidden in the first picture.

In picture 2 of 6, the big ice patch in front of the garage door is all that is left on the driveway that I can see.  The next time Rob comes to the house, we will do the tire swap from studded to all weather.

In picture 3 of 6, you can see the top rail of the fence all the way down the driveway.  This is exciting!

Picture 4 of 6... This is the snow that is still piled up on the left side of the driveway.  With temperatures in the '50s during the day, these piles should be gone in no time.

Picture 5 of 6 shows the trouble area as far as our breakup goes.  Since the temps get well below freezing at night, I have to go outside, shut off the pump, disconnect the hose on the top, and unplug the pump so I can bring it into the garage for the night to keep things inside the pump from freezing.  Then in the morning I go back out and reattach the hose and plug it back in, and turn it back on to keep the puddle from growing to flood into the garage.

Picture 6 of 6 shows the close-up of the little yellow pump (in the shade so hard to see). The snow along the fence line behind is melting quickly.  Another couple of days in the '50s and the PVC pipe may be laying on top of the snow pile instead of being pushed through the pile.

See you tomorrow!!