Wind continued to blow at 40 mph until after I went to bed last night after midnight, but still no snow. The forecast was for less than an inch overnight. Imagine my surprise when I woke at 8 to this view! I’m grateful for this bountiful moisture in early spring, our biggest single snowfall in several years.

Later I had to shovel a couple of paths for her, one to a pee spot out front, and another to her poop tree out back. I didn’t measure but it was well over a foot of snow, around sixteen inches before it warmed up and started to settle. I texted our snowplow guy who had to dig himself out first and then some other neighbors.

By the time he arrived the light deep snow had been melting for a few hours and become dense, wet snow, half as deep and twice as heavy. He tried to charge me $50 for plowing the quarter mile driveway, same as last time. “I can’t do that,” I scolded, “There’s at least twice as much snow as before.” I paid him $75, and then he shoveled a path from the front door to the wood pile, and brushed off the car. I’m so grateful for such a cheerful and kind snow helper.