Warming Trend ?? Where??

Things are shaping up in the north! A prolonged cold spell and frequent small snowfalls have covered the trails and our land in a white, glistening blanket of winter gold. Great if you are a snowmobiler, but not so much if you hate cold weather. So where is this global warming I've been hearing so much about? Temperatures as low as minus 40 F last week up here, wish I had a history on my thermometer.

Due to the crazy weather this weekend, we decided to go up Sunday. Good choice. There were numerous spin outs all the way up to upper Vermont, and the ride up was about an hour or so longer than normal. Dad came up with me, his first trip up since his quadruple bypass in October. The last time he was up was when the foundation forms were put in. We got up there around 3:00 pm and checked into the hotel. We went up so he could check out the place, and I had some snow cleanup to take care of. We have the driveway plowed, but they can only get so close, and the snow is starting to pile up. So we had to clear a path out back for the propane tank installation and an area for the installers to work.

Dad even took a turn moving snow. Guess you can't let a quadruple bypass keep you down eh?

The men showed up early and set the tank out back on the corner of the building and then ran the piping upstairs.
The heater was installed on the back wall upstairs in the corner. It took the about 2 hours from start to finish. We turned it on and ran it for about a half hour and it heated the relatively barren upstairs from 21 to 40 degrees pretty quickly.
While we were at it, we installed an electric heater in the garage level to help melt the snow off the snowmobiles and take the chill out a little if you are working down there.
Of course the view of the mountains across the road were spectacular! It amazes me how beautiful the view is no matter what season. Spring and the fresh greens of fields and trees, summer, with the sun and clouds shading the hills, fall. with the fiery red, orange, and yellow, but my favorite still has to be winter, with the trees coated after a fresh snow.