Tomorrow is the first day of winter, but I think someone forgot to tell Mother Nature because she sent the snow a bit early! We live in a snow belt and got dumped on here in Loon Lake over the last couple of days... 29 inches over night! No worries about having a white Christmas this year. But I am a little worried that I didn't get my Christmas shopping done, and we have family festivities to attend, and driving into town (we live about 30 miles from the big city of Spokane) could be difficult to say the least. Only one of our cars has snow tires, two have 4-wheel drive and my poor husband's van has neither. He had to stay home from work today because there was just too much snow this morning to go anywhere, and someone has to dig us out!
The poor pets are having a hard time getting around in all of this snow. You would think our chow Cubby Bears would be better at it then our chihuahua Jack E. Cheez, but no... Jack's not scared at all, it's Cubby who is the pansy!
Even the cat Stanley Oliver is fascinated with the snow. He hopped and skipped right out in the deep snow and over to under the picnic table. Getting back he wasn't so bouncy.
Earlier this week, we didn't have quite as much snow, but enough to cover the ski docks. There was one day that a Great Blue Heron spent most of the day roosting on the ski dock, sleeping as it snowed.
This isn't the first time I've seen the heron out in a snow storm. A couple of years ago, when the fish pen was in the bay over the winter, the resident Great Blue Heron named Bruchis would hang out daily. Check out this video I took of Bruchis in a snow storm...
Poor bird looks cold...and confused LOL!. Great pics :)
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