The weather in the past week was not just above normal but brilliantly warm and sunny, please don't take this as a rare occasion up in here in Pacific N.W. It in fact does happen, just normally not this early in the year. To think a week ago we had our last dumping of 2ft of snow, and in all the warmth we've had all of that and then some melt away before our very eyes. So this weekend was an ideal time to help out the process of snow removal. Numerous sheds and chimney's collapsed this Winter and now the clean up efforts begin... We spent part of the day clearing an 8-10ft deep collection of snow before one of our neighbors homes that haven't been up here since the New Year. Unfortunately as the snow slid off roofs they piled up covered and leaned against windows, doors, and porches making it next to impossible to enter, and often they also backed up onto roof tops as their was no where else for the Winter mess to go.
Fortune for me I live on the North side of Silverton (The Heights) where we receive a far amount more sun and Spring seems to be welcoming us a bit sooner. We're down to about 2-3ft of snow pack where as the folks across the bridge in lower Silverton still have a good 5-6ft, and seems 10-15F colder in the morning, but it's all spendid.
Another great method of snow removal is producing even more heat, so in this instance a bonfire was that helped out quite a bit. A friend from the city came up to visit for the first time and his task was to keep feeding the fire. We hung out into the wee hours of the night as the temperatures dropped back below freezing and the stars came out to light up the night sky. Funny thing, we were able to spot a couple of planets but to the far East we could have sworn their was a strobing UFO of sorts, and for a while were skeptical if it were coming for us (perhaps too many S. Park episodes).
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