Beautiful, sunshiny, warm - unlike the overnight temps in the single digits that we've had this winter - I love it! Sometimes I wonder how I can stand spending yet another winter in this house, 1/3 of which is unheated, or even another winter in Los Alamos. I love a warm day like today but overnight temps in the single digits or even minus is hard for me to take mentally and physically.
Outdoor faucet on south side has lately been forming a long, ice stalagmite which worried me because I thought it meant the faucet had frozen but after I tightened the handle, the icy spear disappeared. Also out of fear of frozen pipes in the crawl space, I made cardboard covers for the 2 foundation vents on the south end of the house. I do have doors for the vents but I'm not willing to fetch them from the attic, buy more house paint and paint them to match the house. They are dark brown which is the former, yucky color of all the house's trim.
Today, all my favorite parking spots at the bottom of Camp May Road were taken or too snowy so I drove up Camp May Road to the Ocean and started my walk from there - went all the way to the Townsight Lift.
WI group now offers both a hike and a snowshoe. I chose the hike on Kwage or North Mesa. Five of us showed up. Since the dirt path was mostly snow packed, 3 of us donned YakTrax. The other two, because they thought the trail would be muddy, wore pack boots.
At the end of the mesa, our leader took off his YakTrax and went down rocks to the bench below. None of the rest of us did but I want to next time I go there.
Back in the parking lot, after everyone had left, I saw 2 coyotes trotting from the stables out onto North Mesa. Someone had told me that she doesn't like to walk her small dog there because of the coyotes.
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