On Thursday, we celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary! Amazing how time flies - it's really hard to believe that it's been that long. We are very blessed indeed. We had a good snowfall the night before and it left the area definitely feeling like a winter wonderland. We went for a walk in the afternoon to help counteract the calories we knew we would be eating later. The river area looked so quiet and peaceful.
In the late afternoon, we went down to Saratoga Springs and took in some of the Christmas sights, of course stopping for a chocolate treat at Kilwin's while we were there! Then we went to dinner at the Wishing Well - using up the rest of the gift certificate that Kyle and Julia had gotten us last year!
Yesterday, Jim headed to the land to check things out. As you can see from this picture, the snowplows had left quite the big pile of snow in front of the driveway - no way the car was going up over that. So Jim had to hike up the hill.
There was probably 16" of snow on the deck. Although Jim said he's sure that the deck could hold three times that safely, he knew that there was a first layer of thick frozen slush underneath the snow, adding to the weight. So he decided to shovel...10 feet in the air on top of extremely slippery metal decking. Yikes! But he got the first section done, which is the thinnest gauge metal. He'll probably do more later on today.
He also got the Bobcat going and plowed some of the hill to make walking up and down a tad easier.
Late this morning, Jim headed back to the land. He brought the Bobcat back down the hill and worked for about an hour clearing all the snow that the plows had piled up at the end of the driveway.
Then it was back to work shoveling the deck...
Another section all clean!
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