The Elysian Fields

Which means I was up for work! =)

It was a nice morning, but before long (before 9am, to be specific), it turned to rain.

I still had 4.25 in. of snow at all my client sites. Probably more in my own drive, but I didn't bother measuring there.

After I had finished up, I ran by the CU to deposit some checks, and the roads up to that area were fine, but the side roads up on the hill looked like well-groomed skating rinks. Didn't notice any slippage, but on those roads, better safe then sorry, so the chains went on for that.

Actually, the main roads were fine with 2WD even, but the back roads felt safer with 4WD.

While doing the first pass down the road at the LGNC, I rolled a nice snow boulder in front of the highest driveway on the hill, so I made a few extra passes to clear the openings at the drives and side roads. Found out that, in real slippery conditions, the chains might not grab as quick as I'd like when I'm doing a lot of short-distance back and forth. Makes sense ~ with a longer run in either direction, the centrifugal force gets the chains out there. Stop & go that is more stop than go doesn't give it a chance. No big problems, though, and I was never in a position to worry.

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Yep, I hooked up the plow, turned the truck around to prep it for a straight shot down the driveway, and, if anything, the snowfall increased.

We will have plowing today!

And, if the weather folks are right ~ which they're not, by the way: this light fluffy powder we're getting is not a 100% chance of ice pellets ~ then this will last for three days. And then another storm Wednesday.

Already there's about an inch or so... and they're now calling for 8-12 inches by tomorrow morning...

The scene looks much better than it does in this picture from last week:



=)

The rain that's falling is doing so rather slowly, despite the winds whipping around at there...

There was even some visible accumulation on Mr. B's sandbox lid, but that slushified after a moment or two.

This afternoon, I'll be recycling the oil slurped out of the DR, and then I can slurp out the hydraulic oil from the plow, refill it... and I need to pick up some grease so I can take care of the fittings on it... and I still need to finish figuring out how to get that beacon wired and installed*... and likewise the reverse/work lights... and I also need to replace the snowblower chain that broke last year...




Yeah, I'm one of those people hoping for lots of snow...

* I have the one fitting I needed; it's a lot narrower inside than I had hoped - very thick wall is good for stability, not so good for squeezing a connector in there like I had planned; need a smallish junction box that I can stick out there at the end of the pipe, which changes the bracketing needs completely. Very glad I didn't custom order a pair already - although my estimated sizes were accurate, so that aspect of it would have worked.