My Frozen World...

This is my back yard from my dining room window( because you can't get into the back yard at this point with out a dog sled...) it is completely drifted in with several feet of snow...  Just to give you a little perspective, that dark circle thing in the left corner is the top of a 3 foot chimanea that is on a stone platform that is built into the wall about 1 ft off the main ground...  There are actually two tiers of rock wall behind it. If you go to this post from August 2012 and scroll to the bottom of the post you can see what it looks like without the snow, HUGE difference!

We are one underground bomb test at Picatinny short of a mini avalanche! ( the mountain that my property is on is connected to a military base about 10-15 miles away as the crow flies. They design ammunition and test it underground, when they test the whole mountain shakes! ) I have lived within 20-25 miles of the base all my life, whenever there is a boom or shudder in the ground people just look at each other and say," Picatinny..."  They have a great waterpark that we were members of for several years when my kids were little.

My grill further under...

The side steps going into the back from my deck... my daughter decided to go on a treck through the yard yesterday...

This view is from my driveway looking up into the back... my daughter fell into a drift up there behind the fence yesterday and sank up to her waist, she's just under 5 foot tall... there is a 6 foot rock retaining wall behind that snow pile... somewhere... the picket fence is only 1/3 showing at this point...

I have to trim back this pile about 2 feet, I had trouble backing out of the garage yesterday afternoon. There's no where to go, the snow pile from the previous picture is taking up a 1/3 of the driveway...

This is said giant snow pile taking up the driveway...

My driveway...( yes, we shovel this... my husband's quad is out of service and it's not in the budget to get it fixed right now(sigh) so we old school it...)

This Blue Spruce is about 30 feet tall... ( I planted it with my husband when we moved in 14 year ago, it was only 4 feet tall...)

looking down onto my front walk from the steps... there's about a foot of sidewalk hidden under the snow on the right...

This is facing the stairs, I tried to dig a pathway for the utility and oil guys( on the left) so they can get to the other side of the house, there's actually a stone walkway under there, someplace, somewhere...

The side view off my porch... my pathway I dug got snowed in. (again...)

Well, that's my frozen world at the moment. It is going to snow again this afternoon 2-4 more inches... I give up at this point and I'm like, whatever...  

This is the mountain I look onto from the front of my house. I have big windows on the front and when I look out from my chair I only see the mountains ( not the street as I am up onto the other side of the mountain)  I look out and think how beautiful it actually looks from this angle...

We were only house bound Thursday since it snowed ALL day, non-stop... Friday was a continuation of clean-up, but we were out running errands in the afternoon. I am attempting to organize the insanity of the past couple of days from my kitchen, laundry room area...

I'm doing dishes, laundry, straightening up boots, jackets, etc... that were drying by the back door... I have dried salt to wipe up everywhere again... I think that out of every thing drives me the craziest... that and constantly tripping over boots that are drying in the kitchen...

Well, enough procrastinating, work to do! (just looked out the window, the snow has started again... sigh...) On a bright note it's going to be in the 50's next week for a few days ! Yay! That will melt a good chunk of this mess! To everyone out there in frozen land, stay warm! 

Mrs."C"  :)