Light snow

Here's a bit of activity from April 29.  Up here in the snow belt you need one of these snow removal machines.  When the season is over the machine requires a certain amount of summerizing.  The main thin is that you cannot leave any gasoline in the tank over the hot months as evaporation will result in gumming up of the carburetion bits.  Once it has been decided that there will be no more snow one takes the machine out into the driveway, fires it up and waits for it to run out of gas.  It was a beautiful day on April 29, I included that task in my list of things to do after riding my bicycle.

Looks nice out there in the field past the snowblower and car, doesn't it?

Here's the backyard this morning, May 3, 8am.

Mind you, we got off easy.  Cottage Grove on the southeast side of the Metro had 8 inches yesterday while we on the northeast side got none.  Places in southern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin got a foot and even more.

We got off easy but we didn't get completely off.  Snow in May.