Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!

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Thanks, and same back to you!

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Cheers! I hope everyone is having a relaxing and stress free time.

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Bah! Hum-bug!

Since my wife passed away, don’t really do Christmas anymore, but wish everyone the best.

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Charley Poodle will be keeping an eye out for you this year.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!

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I up one Austrian Shepard with his full winter weight of 128#.

He keeps an eye on me (every hour at least) because he thinks I might be snacking on something and not giving him his piece.

The only reason I have to keep my doors and gates locked is so I don’t have to clean up the blood and call EMS

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The one pic of maybe 20 where Napoleon was not moving and blurring the image

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This is better

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I found this an interesting pattern of snow laying on top of the upside down sailboat in my backyard after a few days of on and off snowfall.

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I think I know how and why it ended up like this; what model(s?) can you all come up with?

Okay, is time to deal with the driveway. What are your preferred patterns for that? I have a snow joe and have settled on a herringbone model.

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No cat pictures.

No crazy cat-ladies programming PLC’s?

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I start in the middle and go to the sides except where that would blow onto the neighbors property, then I start on the property line and move across to my lawn

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Fresh snow didn’t stick where sunlight was? Then when it hardened overnight it just stays.

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I think it was slope-related, so as the snow accumulated, the snow slid off where the hull was less horizontal and more vertical because it could not support the increasing weight.

I don’t think the temperature got above freezing, but if it did that could certainly be another mode.

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It doesn’t have to warm up to melt snow (actually evaporate it)

Back in the 1970’s here in Detroit the ground was covered with snow before Thanksgiving and stayed covered into April.

Now, we can get 14” at once and with the temperature never going above 30 it can be gone in a week just from the sunlight bearing down on it.

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I doubt sublimation would change how much the snow sticks to the surface.

What I meant by going above freezing is that the resulting liquid flows to the snow-boat interface and makes the snow more likely to slide off.