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What a crappy blizzard, it's just an ice storm. Best thing I can say about it is I haven't lost power ...yet

Some charts had six to nine inches with up to 11 in isolated locations

But I noticed late last night they down graded it to three to six inches

It looks more like an inch of snow with a half inch of ice on top of it unfortunately

Be careful out there Mainers! Stay home til it melts, have a coffee, relax! ☕️🐸

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We had thunder and lightning last night but no snow.
The front is still moving so the chance is there, but it looks like a rain event for us mostly. We might get stray flurries but not what was predicted.
We were in the 1-3 inch area before last night.
Almost 20 degrees warmer here this morning than yesterday.
 
We lost power for a minute. It tried to snow a few times but was mostly rain when it did fall. Lots of wind and chill. I think it was mid afternoon when we heard a loud bang-bang and a bit of a rolling sound. Thought it was thunder for a second but then the lights went out. Was off just long enough we had to reset the clocks on things like the stove. Guessing a transformer got hit or blew for some reason.
 
Today I gotta stack firewood on the deck, this is going to be a warm week so I'll probably split some of the bigger pieces in half at some point this week too, but it won't be today

It hasn't been cold enough to start stacking wood in the house, I need a couple of hard freezes in the teens before I bring wood in the house because the freeze kills any little creepy crawly still left

I'm down to my last 4 oz of bud but I have some weed in the freezer that I make hashish from

Pretty soon I'll only smoke hashish. I don't know why but every December through the rest of the winter I smoke only hashish, I noticed this a couple years ago. Weird, I know, but I accept it 🤣

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So they're all in the field including this young male that I don't recall seeing before

So I try to sneak out the other side of the house to go get my mail, it was already dark so as I'm walking down the driveway to my immediate left just in the treeline there's a big I think female, and I stopped, she stops

I said to her "I'm just going to get my mail", she lets out this loud snort from her nostrils, jump straight up, bounces twice in the opposite direction and she's gone; didn't see her again didn't even hear her running away through the woods!?

Sorry my pictures aren't better from potato phone, but I have a phone attachment on my telescope that I've never tried, I'm going to give that a go this winter hopefully I can get some sharper pictures
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Doing my daily 1 hour hot burn, I'm burning different this year and also trying creosote powder. This will be my fifth winter heating with wood

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I have a wood in this delivery that stinks!🤢 I smelled it once when I opened the door to load stove, again when I was outside working, I'm trying to see what the hell it is? At least there's not much of it


Having my morning joint and coffee in the house today, little too cold out for me. Watching the deer in the field

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Worked my tail off yesterday, bunch of little stuff, still have some winterizing to do. Resting today, not going to split wood till tomorrow
 
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Blue Jays finally figured out how to eat from the new feeder, and I put some black oil sunflower seeds in the old feeder on the left. I have a Squirrel Guard that attaches to the pole on order, but I haven't seen the gray squirrels in a week

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