Let it snow, let it snow, let... it... uh... not snow.

I love snow. Everybody knows that. I get excited every time it snows. As a result, I've gotten excited a LOT this winter. We've had a lot of snow. I still get excited every time it snows, but now snow removal in my yard has turned into such a pain in the ass. My yard is full, my driveway is full, and I really don't have anywhere else to put it. I'm also aggrivated because when we get the snow I spend 1 or 2 nights cleaning up, but thanks to all the frigging rain we get right after every snow storm, half the time I don't get to ride the sled until after the nice new snow gets rained on. Fortunately, I got a couple good days of riding in this weekend, but I didn't finish my shovelling and snow blowing until sunday afternoon.

Just to show how much snow we've got, I took some pictures. Keep in mind that most of north adams probably has less than a foot on the ground, and pittsfield has grass showing. Click on the pictures for a full size version:

This is a picture of the house. Notice the massive snowbank behind the mailbox. Keep in mind that there's a rather large fence that's almost completely burried:

Here's another pic of the fense and the front yard:

Here's the other end of my driveway where my dad pushes the snow. The state has used their loader to push it back, which is why it's so high. What you can't see from the pic is that this mound has basically taken the last 30' of my driveway, and has almost blocked me from being able to get around my garage. This mound goes all the way from the brook at the edge of my property, almost up to the corner of my car port:

Here's that mound from the path I snowblow behind the garage:

Here's the path over to the propane tank behind the garage:

Here are the steps to the house. The mound on each side is above my head:

Here is a pic of the back yard. It's hard to see in the pic, but at the top of the hill is the very top of our septic vent sticking out of the snow.