I had to run errands in Olympia last week, and fortunately, I did them on Monday. Snow began falling in earnest on Tuesday, and by Wednesday afternoon, this was the scene that greeted me as I hauled manure out to our back field.Bill ended up telecommuting for a couple of days, and took the shot below after the sun came out on Thursday morning.
We so rarely have any significant amount of snow in our area that there's virtually no local snow removal plan, and very little equipment. Only the main highways are cleared. A couple of hours after our friend John drove his tractor over on Thursday afternoon, and cleared our driveway and the section of our private road from our place to the corner north of us, the snow plow came whizzing by on the county road, and piled packed snow back up across the end of our road. Bill was unable to make it through the pile of snow in a single effort, and had to shovel our van out several times over the next few days in order to make the turn onto the main road. He did manage to get out Friday morning, though, and make it to an early meeting in Olympia.The cats wouldn't set foot more than 2' past the doors, and the three female alpacas spent the whole time inside their shed, but "the boys" didn't seem to mind the snow at all.
