Digging Our way Out.

I'm beginning to get a bit fed up with this snow. It would have been alright if it had been next week when we will be having our half-term holiday but right now there is the pressure to get into work for both of us. This morning a lot of the snow had melted but then it snowed for most of the day and temperatures are set to plummet tonight. The forecasters are already talking about more blizzards on the high ground, (that's us) and warning of icy roads tomorrow morning. The back roads are drivable at the moment and the main roads are clear.

But we can't get the cars out past the 1/4 mile of snow drifts along our drive. Romas and I have started to dig our way out but it's a really big job. Paul drove his tractor out later this afternoon to collect silage bales. The tractor cleared some driving tracks but the snow in the middle was so high we still couldn't think of driving the cars through and we continued to dig away this snow. It wasn't until his 3rd pass that Paul had the idea to lower the prong thingy at the front of the tractor to flatten out more of the snow. We've managed to do about half of the distance. If we had realised on Friday that the snow drifts were going to be such a problem we could have started earlier to clear them but it is hard work on your back. I guess I'll have to walk to the main road again tomorrow morning and I'm sure someone will give me a lift part of the way home. At least this is only an inconvenience unlike the disaster those poor people are suffering in Australia with the bush fires and tragic loss of lives. It is important to keep things in perspective.