Friday, January 08, 2010

 

Icicles hang by the wall.

It has been warmer today - the calm before the storm.
The temperature has crept above zero for the middle hours of the day.
Close to the house there has been the drip, drip, drip of water from the gutters.
Neighbours' gutters.
We had our gutters replaced and no water has seeped through any joints.
But over our fence water has started to drip though and formed a long icicle
This was taken by Bill by leaning out of the back bedroom window.
Bill took all the icicle photos.


Water dripped down to the fence and formed walls of icicles overnight.


The top of the fence appears to have a colony of ice monsters - ice slugs!
They have left a mound of clear jelly like slime!




You can see that our little garden is home to more than plants. All sorts of pots, pans and ornaments find their way out there.
The large circular pan is a preserving pan. It will need a good wash whenever I get round to making any jams or chutneys again.


Making faces in the snow.
As we now have 3 stone faces, I guess we can say we collect them.
I would certainly be happy to add more strange faces to the garage wall.
This morning Bill worked hard to extricate the car from the snow and ice outside the back gate.
I took this photo of the car yesterday.



I also attempted to show the depth of the snow by showing the car tracks of a neighbour's car who had gone out.
The snow was easy enough to remove - it was the couple of inches of solid ice underneath that was harder.
Having done the work Bill was eager to use the car.
We didn't go far - just as far as Lidl.
We had done a major shop there over 2 weeks ago.
Now I think we have enough for the next 2 weeks - apart from bread, milk, rice cakes and cat food.
The North Easterly winds are increasing in strength. It will feel very cold over the weekend.
There will be more snow.

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Icicles hang by the wall.
posted by Grandma P on Friday, January 08, 2010