Snowplow sign
This fluorescent orange flag, attached to our address sign, will keep our driveway clear all winter.
Well not literally of course. It’s the indicator for the grader operator to clear our driveway when he or she is doing the county road. It’s one hell of a deal. For a fee of only $100 (going up to $150 next year) the county will plow our driveway with their grader whenever they are doing the county roads. This is great! Especially given the length of our driveway.
In the past we rarely went to our lodge in the winter… only once or twice to check on the place, but snow prevented our access… we could not get up our driveway. I think that with this snow clearing deal we should be able to get up the driveway and thus be able to use the place a few times in the winter.
Of course we have winterized the place… turned off the water and drained the lines, and put antifreeze down the drains, so there will be no running water which means no toilet. We’ll have to work that part out!
We went to our lodge last night to do the close-up. This morning we awoke to a winter wonderland.
We awoke to find a winter wonderland.
Jed, our beautiful black Boxador, loved the snow!
Jed looking out at new fallen snow.
There was a freezing rain warning, but we got this snow instead. By afternoon some of it had melted as the sun came out and the temp crept above freezing.
We were on the road by about 5:15 after putting the lodge to bed for the winter. It was a pretty easy close up, made the more so by the close-up check list on our website.
While winter close-up is always tinged with sadness, that feeling was lessened somewhat by the knowledge that we can come up occasionally during the winter for a weekend retreat.
