God forsaken in the best of times

[us56456712]

Today. We went out for breakfast so I took some photos. It started snowing during breakfast.
Before breakfast.

After breakfast.

With an old house you have to shovel the roof off to prevent the roof from collapsing.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

With an old house you have to shovel the roof off to prevent the roof from collapsing.

That first roof is holding a lot of weight. I have to use a roof rake on the garage, it is already pretty slantey. So fun to have to clear the roof, with half of it falling in your face, and then shovel up what you've removed once again.

 

[us56456712]

He has roofers jacks so he won’t slide off when he is up there. I just shovel steps down to my door after removing roof snow.

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

My patio roof was not designed to hold snow. Any snows over 6" and I use my improvised garden rake/cardboard/zip-tie clearing device and drag it off. Being my height is a plus for this and I just stand on a chair to get it done.

 

[RustyGold]

Near the Oregon-Idaho border...100+ vehicles over a six mile area. They don't call it Dead Man's Hill for nuthin'.

Big ol'crash!

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

Sierra/Cascade Cement

I'll take Colorado Powder over that any day.

 

[us56456712]

March 3rd and +1F. Still to cold for me to do anything except shovel, feed the critters and burn my garbage. The general store closed last fall as the owners retired and the bank wouldn’t give a loan for potential new buyers. That meant that we lost access to their dumpster. So, we burn everything that’s not compostable. Bones, cans, glass, paper, plastic, vacuum cleaners, TVs, shoes, cloths, tires you name it. We had an old two story cabin here where our new house is. It was cut off its old foundation with an old chainsaw, pulled down with large come a longs and then I spent the winter burning it. I have a big bag of batteries that need recycling. The glass is smashed and collected and the metal is recycled after the burn. We’re hoping that the store will open some day.

 

[us56456712]

Today it’s 32F with freezing rain. I had to use a ski pole for stability to go out and salt my walk to the woodshed. My wife hauled wood from the shed as our porch stash was low. I can’t imagine trying to drive today, I think that would be impossible, you can’t hardly stand up outside.