Tony's in his element!

We awoke to a winter wonderland this morning. Snow fell all night and while it was only reported as 4cm, it felt like 40 to us! The kids loved walking to school, kicking it up. It was so soft & fluffy! The landscape looks so much brighter and fresher after the snow.

With this much snow comes the social responsibility of clearing your footpath. This is essential as the postman needs to be able to walk up or your front door to deliver the mail. Many people outsource it but Tony is embracing it! He is a farmer at heart! So.... out he goes! These photos show some before & half way through photos, as he clears the car.

 

 It is mornings like this we wish there was a garage! We thought it was a lot of snow.

 

Then of course he needed to do the driveway- so we could reverse out! Imagine doing this before you can drive to work on several days during winter?

 

We don't need to do the street or the footpath. Snow clearing vehicles come along during the day to do this. It means there is a huge amount of snow on the edge of the road. The snow from the road is pushed to the edge of the road and the snow from the footpath is pushed to the edge also - making it pretty deep. Lach chooses to walk in this pile as much as possible!

 

We are wondering how the local council manages the road clearing when big dumps like this happen. It is so unpredictable: so are workers employed for the whole winter and some days you work a lot and others you don't; or is it a casual work force that all get a call when the snow starts falling? We will keep trying to find things like this out!