Lots of plowing going on.

For the moment, the snow has stopped. There is more in the forecast, but right now things are quiet. This gives us a chance to get caught up with the snow. We've had snow every day this month, in varying amounts, and it has proved to be hard to keep up.

Our son, Jamie, who lives just up the road from us, was out with his old Ford tractor this morning, pushing back the banks to get ready for more snow. Fred was also out with his snow blower. At the end of our driveway, where Henretta Splain's, Jamie and Marie's, and ours all come onto W. Shore Road together, there is a whole lot of snow built up so it's difficult to see in either direction as we come onto the road.

Jamie's tractor has a blade mounted on the back, so he has to back into the bank. "The Peach," his old put-together Jeep, has a conventional blade on the front, but that doesn't have the oomph the Ford does. One way or another, the job gets done.

Jamie told me this morning the banks are very solid, having frozen after the warm weather and rain/snow mix we had last week, and that makes them hard to break up. His solution is to break the bank up with his shovel and then attack with the plow. A slow process, but whatever works. Sometimes he gets his good friend, Luke Persons from over on Deadman's Creek Road to come with his bucket rig. That's a lot more fun than picking away at it with a shovel . . .

Fred is out with the roof rake. He was going to clear the snow away from one neighbor's television receiver dish and then was going to camp to take some of the snow off the roofs. Busy morning.

Christy Burns, who owns a house overlooking W. Danville at 25 Village View, contacted me this morning looking for someone to take the snow off the roof of the barn at their place. I directed her to the people listed on our web site, but if you know of anyone else who would do some shoveling for Christy, her e-mail address is: anzacreative@comcast.com