Brrrr ... this post is out of order - this is a post from Friday January 3rd - forgot to post it until today

6:53 a.m., Friday, January 3.  David was up before 5:00 a.m. digging out the driveway as he had to be at work by 7:00 a.m., apparently to put together snow blowers for people who weren't convinced by the 17 inches of snow or the 12 inches of snow that fell in 2 prior storms this season.  I got up and helped shovel a little at the end, and he drove my truck so we can finish digging out his car later.

Here's the current temperature - check out the "feels like" temperature of -28 degrees F.

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Upper Park Street, Rockland

Elevation

79 ft

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Overcast

Temperature

-7.0 °F

Feels Like -28 °F

Wind(mph)

10.0

Sunrise / Set

7:11 AM

4:10 PM

Moon

Waxing Crescent

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What's really disturbing is that the forecast says it will be 44 degrees on Monday and we'll get 1/2 inch of RAIN!  Then Monday night it will be 8 degrees, so all that rain, and all the snow the warm temperatures melt, will freeze and we'll be skating on a sheet of ice again!  I hate that!  I know it's because of my fear of falling.  And I know my fear of falling stems from the fall in front of my Connecticut apartment a few years ago in which I shattered my wrist, had to have surgery and a titanium plate with more than a dozen screws inserted to hold it together.  Sometimes in particularly cold weather, that wrist aches!  

I'm waiting for the sun to come up a little more before "walking" Ella this morning.  Given the snow and the cold, I think we won't go far.  She loves the snow, but I think the cold is too much even for her.

And I'll have to go check the bird feeders again, get rid of any snow or ice so the seed is available to what I know will be a hoard of hungry birds.

Stay warm.  Stay inside if possible.  Be peace.

Peace.