Snow In Wellington

Yup it snowed today.. I am so done with snow,
 it sat on the ground a little bit, this morning there was no wind then this afternoon  it was blowing, after they started cancelling schools and closed the Rimutaka hill. in town it may in the ground  but was gone by the time i went home at 4 pm.  Rimutakas is the hills that separate wellington from the Wairarapa  30 ks of  roads
according to the news there were records falling today it was cold 4 degrees was the high, 40 f
People at work were just looking out the window and thinking it was funny. apart from Me.
 The South island is getting slammed with there usual winter storms ( move your sheep to shelter, or risk loosing lambs) August is lambing season. any way this weather is supposed to last 3 days
 I am done with snow!
light well there's 1/ 2 hour more light around this month but it is increasing soooo slowly. we have lambs and daffodills but no warmer weather.

Snow in Fairbanks

today is Oct 6 and its snowing. first one for the year.
dam it .. I am talking about the weather again
no I am not going to photograph it.!

That four letter word

This is just your friendly reminder that we live in Fairbanks and that we get rapid changes in weather, this means ... hold your breath , I really don't want to say it .... snow.

It was cloudy and rainy today and then there was this white stuff falling out of the sky in flakes that sat on the car windshield. it lasted maybe 1/2 an hour , but it was the first of the season and , up at a friends place on Ballane road it stayed on the ground.

so this evening i ran around and put away the hoses and cleaned the greenhouse. I still have some arctic chard, and put the chairs away in the garage. am i ready for the colder weather. um well i only have one job so that's good. I am making good progress on the smaller house projects.

so then i turned on the heat in the house.

I will catch up on posting other stuff soon....

Spring

well just to prove to anyone I do get up early in the morning to see the sunrise this was Monday from the car park at work- vibrant orange,   that will hang out for 15 minutes. It did help that daylight savings  started this last weekend, so I had to get up earlier.   hay it's  a sunrise and Don't see them that often
 last night i found these tracks in my yard ,  i though it was  a dag to start with. but wen i went to look a little closer i found  moose tracks. i guess my trees down the back were tasty. that will save me cutting them down in the spring

  talking of spring....  i saw some black / gray stuff down airport way today , which means that  the sun was melting the snow-  which makes for my definition of spring.

 Will the spring thaw be fast or slow that is the question.   there are always floods some where it just a matter of how much.  but there is lots of snow to melt this year. we can also get snow in late April.

  its been a good week, I have got to go out swimming once a week for the last 3 weeks. it amazing how quickly you feel the benefit of exercise.  am getting out more cause there is more daylight.  12 hours next week.

........ and summer is 8 weeks away

Snow levels

 its been snowing quite a bit the last day or so, we probably got 4 or 5  inches.  i know in some places that snot much but of us here it s quite  a bit. so now i am going to say we have more snow than we did last year. i think my fence is 4 foot high . so i  think we have  30 inches ion the ground. it looks impressive next to my fence anyway. Everything is clean and white.  which it wont be shortly.   Now that it is march, temperatures above freezing are due ..... well when they get here.

 Well everyone has been commenting on my wonderful handbag that I bought in Crete.  so for those of  you that don't live in Fairbanks and want to  see it, I thought a photo was in order.

 the Hondos Center, (JC Penny but more expensive)  had this colour for 150 euros , and the Athens markets had something similar for 50 euros. but when I went out to Crete  to Irakalio.    the markets there had it for 36 ,  and then their were sales so I paid 18 euros.  ( don't buy anything unless its 50 % off)    that about $25.00 ish   It is just' s wonderful colour.

Old Gainsborugh Hall

Caught the train out to Gainsborough, the have a old house that was built in ... wait for it... 1480
a wonderful old house. of the old nobility who was trying to impress the King. that's Richard 3 .
Richard 3 died in battle Bossworth field in 1488 to Edward 7
the house is really well preserved with kitchen and pantry , ( photos will be coming shortly) well worth the £4.00 for entry.
Gainsborough's was nice a enough to have market on Tuesday for me , i found another CD of Queens that I didn't have.
I had a Cornish pastry for lunch. Cornish pastry is like a stew inside a pastry. a really thick meat patotoes and carrots etc.
it was a wonderful sunny day , just some what cold. yes there was lots of snow the other day, i am sure that you have heard. some of it melted today some of it turned to ice. walking down the steep hills of Lincoln was not my idea of a good time. it looks like that trains are running in the smaller towns.
not sure what London is like today.

Snow, a crappy 4 letter word

September 30 and there out the window lies that crappy stuff, it s early enough it s only september, it wont stay....... well

the end of Fall

Sunday 3:30pm in the afternoon, we got snow that stayed longer than it does it Christchurch, this is the north side of my house, no i didn't get the leaves raked in time, the last couple of bags i got today, Monday.

today was windy the house across the street appeared, the leaves are all gone from the trees. today is September 29. how long does fall/ Autumn last ? well i started taking these photos in mid August.
My definition of fall is when there is snow on the ground well this stuff wont stay, 3 weeks maybe, but 95% of the leaves are gone. the calender says that fall only started last week, not the case in Fairbanks.
It was cold today, 20 when i went to work i think it made it to 40 mid afternoon. the way everyone dresses has changed polar necks , warm sweaters. I parked the car in the garage.

Here i will end the the fall series, don't know if you are interested in photos of barren trees , there is kinda ugly time of year now, till we get snow on the ground to stay.
Freeze up will not be far away. Freeze up is considered to occur when the day time high does not reach 32. This will occur between Oct 1 and Oct 15 guaranteed. in 14 years it has not failed me yet. But for now i am done talking about the weather. hopefully there will be more interesting things in life.

Snow

I was out dancing last night and it was cloudy , like snow clouds. it was snowing by the time we left at 9 pm then went out to a friends for wine tasting. got home and there snow , just enough for ground cover. right now at 3 pm Sunday it's 1/2 melted. so tomorrow I will rake the last of the leaves that I was going to do today.
today is sunny so I will enjoy it.