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#1 buckland

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Posted 17 March 2023 - 07:09 PM

The Eagle has landed as it were, typically during the worst snow storm we've ever experienced. One for the books. But safe and sound and digging out.

 

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#2 Casa Escarlata Robles Too

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Posted 17 March 2023 - 07:50 PM

Hey Rob wow that's a lot of snow to come home to.

It's nice to travel but also nice to be home.

 

Looks like you took in some great and beautiful places.

 

I like your night sky shots.The one with Venus and Jupiter is really clear.

I have been watching the sky dance since Saturn was in the area.

And then when the mood started last crescent it was fun to watch

them move around the sky.

 

Thanks for post

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Posted 17 March 2023 - 07:57 PM

Thanks Frank we are tired and have much to do to dig out and regroup but by cracky we went places!. I am finding more and more I just have to go when I think of it... it is getting harder and harder to do the things I used to do. 

The night sky is wonderful. We live in a 'dark area' for New England and enjoy looking up. I also love watching for the international space station fly over as well thinking of the 6 or 9 astronauts up there seeing 16 sunrises and sunsets every day! I would love to go up! (I think).

Rob

PS I forgot to ask, I heard your area is going to get another heavy rain event... Hope you are on high/stabile ground!

PSS I like this sky info site   https://skyandtelesc...dium=newsletter


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#4 ski3pin

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Posted 17 March 2023 - 09:34 PM

This is exciting! We get to take a long trip vicariously! :)

 

Sorry we live so far away we can't come over and help dig out snow. We have skills. :)


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#5 Casa Escarlata Robles Too

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Posted 17 March 2023 - 11:24 PM

Thanks Frank we are tired and have much to do to dig out and regroup but by cracky we went places!. I am finding more and more I just have to go when I think of it... it is getting harder and harder to do the things I used to do. 

The night sky is wonderful. We live in a 'dark area' for New England and enjoy looking up. I also love watching for the international space station fly over as well thinking of the 6 or 9 astronauts up there seeing 16 sunrises and sunsets every day! I would love to go up! (I think).

Rob

PS I forgot to ask, I heard your area is going to get another heavy rain event... Hope you are on high/stabile ground!

PSS I like this sky info site   https://skyandtelesc...dium=newsletter

Thanks for the sky info.We get a decent dark sky but not enough to see the milky way.Also we get lots of fog

as it turns out right when there is some fun sky event or full moon.

 

Thanks for asking about our storm area. Not many problems for us here at the house,but the surrounding area

has been hit very hard. Levees have broken on some of the bigger rivers and flooded housing and ag fields.

 

We don't get snow here only view it on some of the surrounding mountains.

 

Like ski says would like to help shovel the white stuff,but in my case for some reason a shovel handle

just doesn't fit my hands.

 

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Posted 17 March 2023 - 11:34 PM

Funny that... so many handles just don't fit...!! Snow is one thing But mud... mud season is epic.... all the way down to axil ...then freeze and escape by riding the ridges (frozen mud)... but god gave us maple syrup to sweeten the deal. At this point it is very clear just gotta go with what is delivered... can't fight to win with mom nature. Glad you are above waterline  

 

PS in that photo ... like Moses parted the water ...Lord parted the snow.. see that light at the end of the tunnel.


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#7 Casa Escarlata Robles Too

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Posted 18 March 2023 - 12:53 AM

Are you the Moses of Maine?

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Posted 18 March 2023 - 03:47 AM

Sorry we live so far away we can't come over and help dig out snow. We have skills. :)

 

We have weak minds and strong backs! If you give SR a shovel, she's unstoppable.


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Posted 18 March 2023 - 11:48 AM

March Madness in these parts means Mud Madness... we are fortunate it is not Kentucky clay mud. This is splatter mud... that can suck your boot off in a flash of amazement. We call it Calvin season (from Calvin and Hobbes) as we can spend a whole day digging a web of  canals, channeling the down hill flow away from the house. This morning I got an email from my house saying I had better check the basement!...Sure enough my floor water sensor was in a puddle.

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#10 Wandering Sagebrush

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Posted 18 March 2023 - 12:51 PM

Rob, it seems almost like New England is punishing you for having the audacity to seek warmer climates. Hang in there!


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