Sunday 4:15 pm: Another day for lots of snow. My snow stake is barely visible above the snow; which means more than 36 inches of snow are on the ground. Of course areas where the snow has drifted or piled up it’s much deeper. Looking at the weather radar on the Internet it appears the storm is on its way out. As my wife says; we spend all winter preparing for the next snow storm, and we spend all summer preparing for winter.

Another surprise, we lost our mailbox, once again to our town’s snowplow. I’ve decided the snowplow is a precision-guided weapon, and the U.S. Military could save stacks of money by contracting with our town’s maintenance department. I need to close the screen door in my mouth to keep other less complimentary observations in my head on not on paper.

My world has been turned upside-down today: I heard Perry Como singing Catch a Falling Star on Austria’s Radio Burgenland this morning. It seems he has a fan-base in Europe. As much as we’ve visited Austria, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Perry was cool, he‘s also, sadly, dead [May 2001], but I thought he was an iconic American pop-singer from the 1930s to the1960s. Austrians have good taste, you know Mozart, Strauss, Como and those guys. I am still baffled – Hot Diggity!

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 12.9° [F.]

Barometer: 29.802 & rising rapidly

Humidity: 68%

Wind: NW at 2 mph gusty - highly variable

Visibility: < ½ mile - blowing snow

Skies: Overcast

Precipitation: ca. 11 inches - snow

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 11.6° [F.] at 9:21 am

High wind: 27 mph at 1:07 pm

Low wind chill: 3° [F.] at 8:21 am