I have those glasses that darken with the sunlight. When I went outside the other day to get the mail and came back inside, they took forever to change back to regular after all that reflection off the snow. And the sun wasn’t even shining that day! I was walking around the house for several minutes wondering why it was so dark before I figured out what in the world had happened. That’s happened a couple of times in the summer but never in the winter that I can remember. The odd things is that I finally had to literally warm them up in my hands to get them to turn back to normal.
I had to nod in agreement with something Tara Marie said on her blog the other day:
It’s been a very strange winter in our neck of the woods. Very little snow, but very cold. The river behind our house is frozen over. We’re expecting some snow tonight (4-8″), but certainly nothing like the Mid-Atlantic States have seen this winter.
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The pond on the hill behind our house has been frozen, at least at the surface, seems like for the last month. It almost never freezes. Also, not sure where she’s at, but here in western Kentucky, we’re definitely not used to having snow on the ground for two weeks. It’s not the snow, it’s that it’s taking so long to melt. I mean, it’s not like it’s a couple a feet like in the east or northeast. It’s just a few inches, more or less, but it’s not melting! o.O
Normally, even if we do get up to four or five inches, which for some odd reason usually happens in late February or March around here, not December or January – those months are our rainy season – the sun comes out the next day and, pfft, the stuff is gone in a couple of hours. Literally. Late February or March, remember. We might get a foot one day but two days later, it’s 50 degrees. 50 degrees and sunshine can melt snow fast. Usually.
This stuff, though, is like someone sprayed it on. 😉
It’s got our cats freaked out like you wouldn’t believe. Living on a farm, they’re both indoor and outdoor cats. We have four and some of them prefer to stay outside more than others but most of them will head inside when the weather is bad. Just long enough for the sun to come out again. They’re used to odd behaviors on our part, weather included, but this carpet of white, cold, wet annoyance has them acting like, uh-uh, not going out there until someone removes whatever that is. They keep looking out the doors and windows to see if it’s gone yet.
I kinda agree. 😀
It did finally melt – when the temps eventually climbed to the fifties over the weekend. It just took forever to get there this time. Of course, I woke up this morning and it’s snowing again. Okay, mostly flurries but my deck is already white. I was like, what?!? Then again, it’s supposed to be back in the fifties by the weekend. 😉
We’re just so not used to very much snow accumulation that it doesn’t take much to shut everything down. Now, it sounds horrible, but floods, severe thunderstorms and even tornados, those we’re used to. Any time of the year, I might add.
I probably shouldn’t have commented on the lack of snow in the Hudson Valley in NY. We had 6+ inches yesterday and are expecting another 12 tomorrow. I guess that means we’re back to normal.
We’re finally getting our snow, maybe yours will be melting soon 🙂