Snowtorious B.I.G. - Snowmageddon 2011 -- The Snowpocalypse

We opened the garage in preparation for Bob to tackle the driveway -- this is what we saw:

But Bob would not be deterred from clearing out our driveway, in spite of the challenge of our very old Simplicity snow blower not working at first.  It started up, it made tons of noise, but, as you can tell at the beginning of the video, it did not .... blow.  But Bob triumphed over the machine and ultimately, our driveway.

A job well done!

Thanks old friend!

Now if we could just get our street plowed.

"They" say we got 13 inches, which sounds about right, but does not account for the blowing and drifting.  Our deck alone has 30+ inch drifts, and we won't even try to open the sliding glass door in fear of the avalanche that will come into our kitchen.

Fortunately Bob fed the birds early Tuesday so they won't starve (and we have a heated bird bath for them to get water from).  A few cardinals are venturing out, and finches, when the crows and starlings don't chase them away.

Female cardinal -- crows scared the male away.

Finches from Tuesday during the storm.