First of all... Happy Birthday to my brother, Andy Lepp. He was having a busy day working in the flower gardens in front of his house. His birthday dinner will be coming from Texas Roadhouse. Sounds yummy to me. Hope it was a great day, Andy!
It has been several days of not taking my snow pictures. It cooled down to where there was little noticeable melting happening. Today it is back in the '50s so I have some new pictures.
So, the front steps to the front door. The fence rails are getting cleared but there is still a small patch of hardpack in front of my garage door.
Looking up the driveway, almost all of the second rails on our fence are now visible from this view... from the house, not so much!
Looking along the other side of the driveway. Notice the small dark area peeking out from the snow up at the curve. It is part of one of our raised flower beds. In November, when the first big snow happened, my very kind neighbor had his plow driver clear the top part of the driveway. The driver pushed a tad too far and clipped one of the raised beds that the previous owners had left behind. We will not see which one and how badly it was damaged. It will match the broken fence on the other side where a road grader backed into the fence during hardpack removal just a couple of weeks ago.
This is the area where the melting snow forms the pond. The little Water Bug pump has been preventing the water from getting out of control.
A closeup of the pump setup. The snow has melted enough that the PVC pipe is no longer pushed through the snowbank but now rests on the bottom rail of the fence. It took Rob a good while last year to set up his monitoring system so he can view conditions from his home. Over the past summer and winter, he refined his device and has been tweaking it every time he comes to visit. I bring the pump in every night as it still gets below freezing and then in the morning, I put the pump back out in the middle of the pond. Just keeping a known source of water from getting into the garage.
These pictures were taken at 1:45 PM.
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