Day after the storm

Close to a meter of snow in some of the drifts, at -12 it was easy snow to blow. I was about 45 minutes clearing the walk and driveway.

It was -5 when I went out on the snowshoes, hundreds of acres of snow without a track.
I attended a meeting in Charlottetown this evening for the 55+ winter games.

Storm day

We are getting major snow this afternoon and evening, present temp is -8.
This photo is near the water tower in the Cornwall business park.
This is looking back at my tracks, I was on the snowshoes for over a hour.
My January total on the exercise bike was 410 km.
This morning I saw a red fox go out my driveway and across the road and down the street towards the river. And when I went out on the snowshoes I was only a 200 meters into the woods by the ball field and came around a turn in the trail, there was a fox coming to meet me about 15 meters away, but it was gone before I could get a photo.

Appin Road

It was -15 and sunny this morning when a group from Cornwall went snow shoeing in Appin road.
There was eight of us in the group. We were out for about 90 minutes.

There were some hilly sections on the trail.
After lunch I helped a neighbor put a new drive belt on his snow blower and in late afternoon I was out on the skis for 35 minutes, it was -8 at the time. This evening I played cards in Warren Grove.

Clear blue sky

Sunny at -12 with just a few clouds in the sky

There was some wind, enough to cause some ground drifting of the snow.

I think both coyote and fox tracks here, I believe the the foxes have a den some where in these piles of clay.
I visited with neighbors at the chicken barn in the morning, I was on the snow shoes for a hour this afternoon and this evening spend a hour helping unload a truck load of chickens

team of horses

I was asked about the breed of horse in this team, According to the hand out at the wood lot, they are Haflingers and always are chestnut in colour and make good light draft horses

sunrise on a winter day

By 7:45 sun was peeking out, temp -12

I went skiing at 1:00 for 90 minutes, temp was up to -5. This photo taken Cornwall side of the MacPhail woods.

A snowmobile had used the nature trail though the woods.
After the skiing I watched curling for the rest of the afternoon.

Wood lot demonstration horses

This fine looking was hauling logs out of the woods.

There was a team as well,

Also a display of animals showing what a beaver, coyote and a red fox looks like.
The wood lot demonstration was at the Buffalo road in Wheatley River. As well as the horses and animals, there was snowshoeing, chain saw tips, tapping maple trees and wood lot management.
-12 to start the day, got up to -2 and mostly overcast.
I spend the morning at the woodlot and was out on the skis for 90 minutes in the afternoon. Watching curling this evening.