Snow, Snow, and Snow Again

It’s 07:46 on a sunless morning, but it’s a relatively warm one (35ºF/1.6ºC) — it has just snowed AGAIN after all — and I take this photo while taking a break from dragging the white blanket off of my truck with the snow brush, 29 December 2021.
I think it’s time to shovel, scoop, excavate(!) out my truck’s bed of the snow that has accumulated so far during this winter season. My plow guy has been and will be busy! There are still three more snowfall months yet to come because it’s only 29 December 2021. The whiteness you can see in the background are not covered structures, but snow piles pushed there by the plow as he builds the mounds higher and wider with each snow event, hoping that he will not run out of space to put the snow — or turn his truck around.
The path of a tire showing the depth of the most recent snowfall of the season. The driveway had been completely cleared before these white flakes began to fall. (January and February are historically heavier snowfall months, yikes…) 11:17 a.m., 29 December 2021.
This year’s snowfall has nearly obscured the external water tank which the water company fills in a timely manner whenever I call for a delivery. Naturally, I shovel out a path and brush off the hidden ladder and dig out the fill hole for the delivery person before the truck backs in. Only three weeks ago I had prepped for a delivery, but I can’t tell that now… In late May there will still be a chunks of thick ice floating on top of the water.
(Photo taken at 11:17 a.m., 29 December 2021.)

Author: Erica K Swift

I have written since I was an elementary school bookworm in Colorado. After college, I traveled to Northern Cyprus, Turkey, and Germany before discovering a home in Alaska. I have self-published children's books, am actively pursuing a publisher for my most recent set of books, and am continuing to write when I am not teaching at a local elementary school.