Snow, snow, and snow

We have immersed ourselves in the middle of the amazing winter here. Have already seen elk (Almont Triangle) a half dozen laying in the snow, a coyote out and about (not at our house though) and did some snowshoeing today. OMG.,  Twice as much snow as last winter so trail blazing was hard, hard, hard. That photo of Mark is out by our back gate. Hmmm...don't see the gate? - standing on top of it! We've only done half the trail so far. Too pooped. We 've seen animal tracks around the house now, so it will be interesting to see if the coyote and fox jump in our tracks as they did last winter. I certainly would - half the effort to get around.

Also went to Mcgills this morning for breakfast. Always really good and lots of people had the same idea. Mark was disappointed that the town had just taken away the big snow piled by the sidewalks, so don't be deceived, they've had a lot of snow. Drove up to the mountain - see - lots of snow.

The massive snow shoveling goes on. Having a nearly 60 ft long deck does not help... There's still a ton on the roof too, I've already predicted this outcome: we get the deck clear and plop goes all that roof snow. We'll see.

And do to multiple requests, since we had cleaned all the flies from the first floor, but waited until today to get the flies from the bedrooms upstairs (nice I know, but we have no guests!) I took a photo before vacuuming - hope you're satisfied. This is what was all over everywhere...