Alaskan's Journal

[Alaskan]

I am just frugal...hate spending money.

The rule here is if we don't see our breath, indoors at noon...no heat.

 

[Bruce]

How often do you wake up with ice on your face

 

[Alaskan]

How often do you wake up with ice on your face

never.... however, sometimes there is ice on the inside of the windows.


Ice on the pond now...2 mornings a row.

 

[Alaskan]

Yes, getting colder and staying colder. We are in the high 30s during the day...the thin layer of pond ice doesn't want to melt, even at noon.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Sounds like time to bring a little Comfort inside that abode..

 

[Alaskan]

Sounds like time to bring a little Comfort inside that abode..

Southern Comfort? Or firewood?

 

[CntryBoy777]

I can't do the Southern Comfort....now some Wild Turkey 101 will put a dent in the Chill........but doesn't last near as long as the firewood does in a cast iron stove....

 

[Alaskan]

Still warm here...well, in the 40s.

But to help me remember that I REALLY need to make sure everything outside is squared away...here are some plowing pictures from last year.

plowing at the lower pond parking lot

plowing the church parking lot

plow lifted up (can't remember why, maybe just for taking the picture), plowing down my driveway.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That shoulder to the left of your drive there looks a bit Steep....why not throw the snow on that side as a bank against veering off and taking a Plunge?....

 

[Alaskan]

That shoulder to the left of your drive there looks a bit Steep....why not throw the snow on that side as a bank against veering off and taking a Plunge?....

that was the problem actually. Achem...here goes:

The driveway is so long and winding that there are not enough places to push snow, so I need to run the plow truck with the tires just barely on the road while not falling into the steep ditches, to get the snow as far off of the road as humanly possible. Otherwise, February comes, and I have to shell out a grand so giant machinery can be schleped up to my place to push that snow back.

Well.... a week or two before the stuck plow picture, the berms were getting big but were still soft. I was driving the car up the drive, and was fussing at one of my sons. And yep, I was so ticked off that I ran right off the drive, through the soft berm and into the ditch.

Not a big deal to drag the car out with the snow plow.

About two weeks go by, lots of snow almost every day. The berms are piling up and getting more firm. I start plowing the road while pretty much aiming the plow truck at the ditches to ram the snow back a bit more and open the road back up.

Not a problem, I do it all the time, works well.

But...this trip up the driveway, ramming the snow back, I forgot that there was a soft spot from my car punching through the berm (there was no longer any visual evidence...you just had to remember ).

I didn't remember the soft spot was coming up, I forgot to ease up and slide by (like I had been doing for the last two weeks since punching through the berm), so yep... I fell right through and so deep into that ditch that the backhoe had to grab the back end of the truck, lift it way up, and swing it over onto the road.