This part of Norway hasn't seen so much snow since the winter of 1968, the media has reliably informed us.
Fortunately the brief "warm" spell of a couple weeks back was enough to clear the roofs of the house and the barn but had little impact on what was lying on the ground. However, just as we were getting used to having a clear road and snow with a suitably hard surface (an effect of the slight defrost and then re-freeze) to walk on,
it started to snow again. And snow, it did, solidly for 4 days. I wasn't the only slightly deranged person to be seen skiing through Tønsberg town centre. T'was a damn sight easier than walking....It's great with all this snow, but it brings with it a fair quantity of work. I am very glad for my recently acquired and no longer defunt snow blower (read all about it on more power). All the same, when it's like this, to get to the front door for example you can not avoid shifting some of the snow by hand. Simple tasks like fetching wood down from the top barn for my new
internal wall in the garage (again on more power) turned into a 2 hour farce trying to get the tractor and trailer back in the barn. It's got to the extent that it is almost impossible to walk through the snow in areas that have not been cleared, making the vast majority of our property inaccessible if you are not wearing skis.
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It all looks absolutely gorgeous - if we had that much snow in the UK we'd probably never recover !
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