Birds, Birds, Birds, Snow, Old Pictures of a Ford and a Motocycle

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I have more variety for you again, including a lot of shots of when the Birds took over all of the trees around our house the other day for about 2 1/2 hours!!! Strangest thing that I've ever seen, eh!! More snow too!! Just go check it out when you can, eh!!

Later, Butch

Birds, Birds, Birds, Clouds, Lucy, Sunset, Fresh Snow

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I've just updated my Blog with a lot of pictures and a video too, of hundreds of birds swarming all over our trees for about 2.5 hours on Thursday the 21st of February. I have never seen anything like this in my life, eh!! Plus I have a couple nice Sunset shots too and a video of some pretty wind blown clouds!! Plus we've had a bit more snow and some really high winds on Friday and Saturday. While in my office watching the snow, I would watch it for a minute or two and the snow would swirl left and then right and then blow horizonially, but hardly just fall straight down. Strange weather we've been getting this winter!! Hope you enjoy, eh!! ;-))

Later, Butch

360 Degree Pano of all our Snow, Mini-Choppers, Lucy our Cat, Moon Shots

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First off, the '360_Pano.AVI is a BIG file and a very long download unless you have a hi-speed connection!! But I took a full 360º video while standing on our deck facing almost North and swinging to my left showing all the snow that we still have all around us, in our multiple driveways, on the rental house, the garages area, our yard, wood shed, our deck and up to our snow laden roof and back around to where I started. I should have used my tri-pod, but it was a spur of the moment type of thing and I think it came out fairly good for doing a 'hand held' moving in a circle thing, eh!! ;-)) Also, I was able to get the truck full of trash to the dump after clearing away the snow from behind it, but I couldn't get back into where I normally park it, because of all the snow still on the ground. The rest is a variety of things, so just go and check them out!!

Later, 'Viper'

Lucy, Ricky, Snow Stacked Up, Snow Damage, Just Snow Still Standing All Around, Moon Craters

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This time I have a lot of shots of Ricky & Lucy just laying around the sofa and my chair. With me setting in it or not, Lucy just makes herself comfortable, even if she has to push my legs apart, eh!! ;-)) Then I have a lot of shots of all the snow around town stacked up everywhere you look. This is an unusual thing for Weaverville. Normally, it snows a few inches, the county blades it to keep the roadway open, then it melts quickly. NOT this time!! Then I have more shots of our property where we still have 12-15 inches of in most of the flat shaded areas!! Then I got some really good close up shots of the Moon too and you can even see the Craters, eh!!

Then we've had a bit of damage from our total snowfall in these last back to back storms of 78 inches!! The 40' long porch roof of our rental has semi-collapsed for all the wet & heavy snow, also the camper shell of my truck and our old barn 'shed' on one end and the building itself is sagging in the middle and leaning a bit too. There is a shot of 2 tall trees leaning off center about 30º also. Then I have a lot of miscellaneous that I've added too. Enjoy, eh!!

Later, 'Viper'

Cleared Driveway, Snow in Weaverville, Snow at Home, Snow still Everywhere

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Guess What?? I got the driveway cleared off yesterday, Thursday, and we went into town about 1 pm today, Friday!!! Hallelujah!!! ;-)))) We had 2 weeks of mail to pickup, plus a couple prescriptions, then did 2 weeks worth of shopping to stock up on supplies again, to be ready for the next snow storm, eh!! ;-)) I've added a couple short videos trying to show you all the heavy gusting of winds on Thursday while I was trying to shovel off snow from our driveway. It was so cold and heavy and blowing right into my face, so I'd turn around quickly with my back to the winds and then continue shoveling till the next big gust hit me again. Also, by the time I'd get my camera ready to take a shot/video, it was already blowing by me, but you will still get the idea, eh!! I took most of the shots at the Longs/Tops parking lot so you can see just how much snow is left in town and then a few shots back at home, too. And you will see just how much snow we still have all around our home, eh!! The BEST shot(s) are of our CLEARED driveway!! ;-))

Since our car was still chained up from 2 weeks ago, since we needed that to get back up our steep driveway when coming back home from town. So I left them on till we got down to the culvert and flat land, even tho we didn't really need them with the cleared driveway and the road way was totally dry!!! Which was a little funny, what with all the snow banked up on both sides of the road, eh!! Then when we got back home I tried driving back up our driveway and got almost to the level area and it's so muddy the car lost traction. So I backed down out into the roadway, and gunned it a bit more and drove right on up to the stairs, eh!! ;-)) I love front wheel drive!!! Then after I unloaded the car, I drove it back out into the roadway and turned it around, then backed it into the driveway just a few feet off the roadway. So I'm all ready to get back to town next time.

Later, 'Viper'

More Snow Shots, Animated GIF's, Body Painting

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Since I'm worn out tonight from all the snow I'm still shoveling, I'll make this short. I've got more SNOW pictures, some misc pics from the Internet and my ebuddies, so just go check them out, eh!! ;-))
Later, "Viper'

Guess What ... MORE SNOW!!

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I have more snow pictures for today, eh!! ;-)) We had more snow yesterday and thru the night, but today was a beautiful sunny day. We lost power yesterday about about dark and it didn't come back on till 3 minutes past midnight. Since we had no power for lights, tv or our computers, Kathy and I light a couple candles and twiddled our thumbs till about 9:30 pm, hoping the power would come back on. Since it did NOT, we both went to bed which very out of routine for us, as I usually am up till around 3 am and Kathy till about 6 am. So going to bed that early I got up a bit after 3 am and just decided to stay up, eh!!

Since the power had come back on I was able to work with my pictures, check my email and work on my web pages. Kathy got up about 5 pm to find out we had no satellite reception, checked her email and then went back to bed to stay warm, eh!! ;-)) About 7:30 am when it was light enough, I trekked out to the antenna and cleaned off all the snow AGAIN!! BUT ... it took about 90 minutes to go out to the antenna, clear off the snow and get back into the house!! The actual clearing off the snow only took me about 15 minute!! As I could only PUSH thru the deep snow 2 to 3 steps at a time and then I'd have to rest a couple minutes to catch my breath and continue on. But by the time I got back inside the house the receiver had 'powered' back up and we had tv again. So I fixed my breakfast and coffee and sat down to recoup, eh!! ;-)))

If Kathy & I have figured it right, we've now had about 83 inches of snow so far this winter and we still have 46.5" out in the open/flat areas!! And I'm getting really tired of cleaning off our deck so many times, just so I can get outside to take pictures, not to mentioned that all the times I've shoveled off the walk, car and driveway, only to get up the next morning to see another 4" to 11'' to 19", eh!! Well I just hope you enjoy all my snow of 2008 pictures, ok!! ;-)) We're already calling it the 'Winter of 2008' which will long be remembered!!

Later, 'Viper'

Finally A Clear Day & NO Snowing, eh!!!

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I don't have to many pictures to share with you today, but to me they are very GOOD pictures because we did NOT have any snow!!! It was sunny and beautiful while I was out shoveling more of this nasty deep snow that is all around us. Even tho our high temp only got up to 35º, eh!! We still have so much snow that when I open the front door & grab my shovel, I have to leave the door open till I can clear off the first few feet. But now I have the problem of WHERE to throw those first few shovel loads, because I was just shoveling it straight ahead and off the edge of our deck. I can't do that now because the old snow is now higher than our deck height, eh!! ;-)) So go and enjoy my pics from today, the 1st day of February, ok!! ;-))

Later, 'Viper'