The past week has brought us some lovely weather, we ventured out of the house with only a fleece, no big jackets if we could help it. It still hasn't been over zero degrees, close to zero though, but for some reason it feels warmer. The sun seems to have some bite in it and the snow is melting during the day. This makes an awful mess, the sand that has been sprinkled on the roads, mixed with snow and then pushed up into snow banks remains behind as the snow melts.
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| Looking up our street, what a mess. |
The roads are all slushy and full of potholes, there was about 15-20cm of ice on the roads which actually made them quite smooth, now there are potholes as the snow melts but the road below is in pretty poor shape too. We're not sure why this is, it could be because of the frost but maybe they aren't maintained that well given that they are covered in ice for most of the year. Water runs down the road in the afternoons but it freezes again overnight and there are huge patches of ice that are extremely slippery.
Our front yard still has over a metre of snow in it but it is quite compacted, Cooper went walking on top of it Friday afternoon, he lost a boot and ran back to the porch crying about his cold foot. Taylor went to find the boot and sunk to the top of her legs, she still wasn't touching the bottom. I think it will be a few more weeks before we see our grass.
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| Sitting in the front yard. |
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| Taylor looking for Cooper's buried snow boot |
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