alexpgp | A scene straight out of Service...

...if you don't count the fact that Shiloh is not a husky, and the kittens are entirely the wrong species!

There is a line in The Cremation of Sam McGee that goes:

The heavens scowled, and the huskies howled, and the wind began to blow

which pretty much described the situation here at what I have come to call "Fort Pagosa" as night fell and the snow got down to some serious falling.

At one point last night, I woke to what sounded like a freight train going past outside the window, and before I could gather my wits, Shiloh started howling and the kittens, who had somehow wriggled their way between my knees and pitched cat camp as I slept, began to meow in chorus. I got up and walked around the house to make sure nothing was amiss, but noticed nothing unusual, except the confounded noise of the wind.

At daybreak, I noticed the overall effect of the overnight storm was not really visible along the windswept portion of the property (the area immediately around the house, which sits on top of a shale outcrop). There's even a small patch of snow-swept shale visible off to the lee side of the house. However, the driveway, which was cleared by our neighbor at around 9 pm last night as part of an ongoing agreement to do so, currently looks as if it hadn't been touched since the start of the snowfall.

I have a job due today, so I am hoping nothing goes <snap> in the electrical system, especially since the battery in the UPS apparently died in my absence.

I better get to work.

Cheers...