The second morning of Storm Stella was as bad as the first here in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville.
I walked out the side door of A Bitty Better and sighed.
Collected from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning.
My neighbor was snow-blowing his backyard. I grabbed my shovel and got to work. When he stopped for a moment, I mentioned across the fence how crazy the wind tunnel effect seems to be for our houses.
He gave credit to Onondaga Lake Park down our road.
It was a good thing that I’d received the text alert informing me that there was no need to report to work to the Liverpool Public Library for second straight day. There was plenty of labor ahead here.
Back door slammed.
Back and front doors needed trails to be blazed as well as the side.
Front door obstructions.
I tackled the covered side landing first. The aforementioned wind had blown feet of snow under the roof. Then I went at the back deck, just one strip for Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle to make her way to the yard. Lastly I cleared the way from the front door to the driveway.
I was out there with my shovel for 75 minutes.
Side space cleared.
Doggie door available.
Front accomplished.
I piled up a lot of snow, the most in the backyard since we moved here in October.
Shovel-high.
I now own my own snow mountain. And a trail.
Cross-country skiing?
Even though spring arrives next week, it seems far away.
Late winter scene.
In fact, it seems like forever until we’ll get a chance to uncover that in-ground pool.
How deep are you the digging out process of winter?
Mark Bialczak 
Spring will come again Mark. I promise. An excellent weekend to you. Thank you.
LikeLike
Happy weekend to you, JoHanna, way out West.
LikeLiked by 1 person
i’m sorry, i know what this is like. i am happy to say that my winter here has been quite mild, as far as the amount of snow we’ve had. fingers crossed that this continues –
LikeLike
A few more weeks for you to dodge the flakes, Beth. Fingers crossed.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes )
LikeLike
Kentucky can go either way, but we actually have only had enough snow to have to shovel once. And though other parts of KY have apparently had snow the last few days, we’ve had zero in my neighborhood. After growing up in Michigan and living years and years in Chicago, this works for me. I have Michigan pictures from my childhood that look much like the ones you’ve posted — in fact one where we’d had to go out the back of the house and around to get a shot of drifts up to the gutters all the way across the front — and I can’t say I miss it 🙂 Sorry it’s happening to you!
LikeLike
I’m glad to hear you’ve had your break thinking shear, Leigh!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Excellent shovel photo, with you new mountain and trail 🙂 It’s beautiful, but I know shoveling is a lot of work. The weather here is not too bad. Almost 40 and sunny. Rain comin.
LikeLike
Thanks, Joey. I used my creativity to mark the mountain and path as my own. 😮 Rain here would wipe that work away, and I would be glad for it. Enjoy the change of seasons in Indy!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Spring’s comin, but it’ll still snow in April 🙂
LikeLike
Good grief, you must have arms that rival Schwarzenegger during his heyday.
LikeLike
Pardon me while I flex, Fannie. Ha!
LikeLiked by 1 person
All that is but a memory. We finally melted the last of our 60+ inches we received over the winter last week, and I am not sorry to see it go. I hope yours melts a bit quicker than ours did.
LikeLike
I’m glad to hear yours took off down the drain at last, Kathryn Grace. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Those drifts are the worst part of it. And your shovel…looks like a red flag of surrender, Mark. I understand.
LikeLike
Oh my what a mess Mark! It’ll melt away soon enough! Gatorette
LikeLike
It’s a long and winding road.
LikeLike