The Walking Tour is coming! The Walking Tour is coming! The Maine Community Heritage Project that Farmington was awarded from the Maine Historical Society was using the Walking Tour as its inspiration and at last the signs for the Walking Tour are going up. This is the frame for the one by the historic Depot. There's supposed to be 8, rumor has it they're only doing 4 for now due to budget constraints. I hope by the time I get back from vacation, they'll be up.
In Texas we say, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute." In Maine, they say the same thing! So far in 18 months here, I haven't really seen any drastic weather changes that would merit that phrase for Maine. But this week, I think we might make it. Today, it started out in single digit temps with snow. This much snow accumulated on my car in the dentist's office while I had my teeth cleaned (and they weren't that dirty so we're not talking about an extended period of time).
Weather predictions are that the snow will turn to rain by evening and tomorrow (Wednesday) the temps will be in the 40's (some predict the 50's) with more rain on the way. If that's not drastic enough. The prediction for Thursday is snow will start after sunset and keep snowing . . . with possible accumulations on Friday of 11 inches! Some are predicting as much as 15 inches!
I'll keep you posted.
I never did find out what the purple lights were for, but here are the Christmas lights on the town gazebo.
This was on my walk to school this morning. Today is the first day of December and we've had enough snow that actually stuck that my favorite tiny riding snow blower that's the width of the sidewalk has been driving down the sidewalk to clear it just for me. These are the tire tracks (it looks like an x-ray of a spine). I'm glad to know that the riding snow blower will come all the way up my hill to my new place . . . or at least to the part where the sidewalk ends that's just across the street from my new place.
I promise to quit counting Snowfalls at some point. Most of the snow from Friday's snow didn't melt. We're starting to get a tiny base. The roads are fine, but the ground is cold enough now that snow is sticking to the grass and hillsides. Sunday night a storm was supposed to come in. I went into the office around 5:00 to get some work done and told myself I would leave as soon as I heard the storm coming. I never heard a thing. There was no north wind that blew in, no howling winds, just a stealth snowstorm that dropped a lot of flakes in a pretty short time.
I have a lot of work to do, but here's what I did instead. This is my old laptop, my school laptop, and my new laptop. See the screen on the one on the left on the floor? That's the symbol for that one being in "target mode" which is allowing me to pull all the data and applications off of that one and put them on my new one. The other one is just waiting its turn. There is so much time involved in setting up a new laptop! But it's so worth it!
It's Wednesday morning and this is the scene outside my apartment at 8:20am. That didn't last long! But still, it was a real snowfall.
This is the only trace of snow left:
On Monday afternoon, as planned, I left Grace's at 5:00 (okay, the plan was between 4 and 4:30, but close enough) and headed to New Hampshire. I tried to stop at the mall in York to go to the Apple Store, but could not find it, so I just headed to the airport and arrived exactly on time to meet Rodney outside security. I presented him with a little balloon shaped like a snowflake and said, "Here's your first snowflake in Maine. May you have much snow for good skiing while you're here, but may you not see your next snowflake until after we get safely to Farmington."
Even though it was 20 minutes out of the way, we went back to the mall and actually found it this time. It was more fun to go to The Apple Store with a fellow MacFanatic anyway, so I'm glad it worked out the way it did. I bought a new laptop! My 4 year old (plus 3 months) laptop is still cranking, but it is slow and the hard drive is full (just of applications . . . I took all the data off and put it on an external source many ages ago) and it's just past due. I'm very excited!
After dinner at the mall food court, we headed back to Farmington. We arrived just after midnight and when we got out of the car, snowflakes were coming down. Oh yes! Mother Nature is so good to me!
This morning, this was the scene outside my apartment. It must've snowed most of the night (early morning).
