The church parking lot- 36 hours (6am, Sunday, 1/25/26 – 6pm, Monday, 1/26/26) in 6 minutes.

Many thanks to Sam and his guys for digging us out- I’m very glad I don’t have to do it any more!

After another trek to the Rec in the even deeper snow with the dogs I came back to find that Walter needed his flap digging out. It has a little “porch” that I built to protect it from the weather, but that was no match for this blowing snow- here it is from inside and outside:

And here it is after 15 minutes with a shovel:

I doubt he will actually go out for a while (he has an inside litter box in this weather), but at least now he can if he really wants to 😉

While I would absolutely love to be able to go around Saxon Woods on my snowshoes, I think even with the Crosstrek it would be foolish to try and get there today 😉 So I took the girls for three circuits around the Rec and they had a fabulous time chasing each other through the snowdrifts:

They had so much fun I think we’ll do it again later 🙂

None of us were expecting quite as much snow as we got this morning- but it made for a pretty walk in the woods 🙂

More fun with the new lens (TTArtisans 40mm f/2)- I’m blown away that a lens this good is so reasonable! Fast, reliable auto-focus, a useful focal length, metal construction, and a lovely, tactile aperture ring- what’s not to love 🙂

The images it takes are great right out of the camera, and take to being tweaked very nicely too- the icy conditions in the woods felt right for some black and whites 😉