Wild Minnesota Weather

View out our front door

Tuesday our grandson Qatar came over to help me remove the snow from our patio.  He filled the wheelbarrow and I took it out through the garage and dumped it on the edge of the parking area.  It took 54 over flowing wheelbarrows to remove all the snow.

This year has been a bad one for icicles.

Driving is a challenge when it comes to intersections as it becomes quite difficult to see the cars coming.

The mail must go through but no one is buying newspapers.

We were having a record snow fall this December until today.  It warmed up to 39 degrees and started raining.    Much of the snow is now gone but tomorrow the low will be 1 and the high 24 along with rain in the morning turning to snow in the evening. What a fun New Years Eve as we have tickets to a show in Minneapolis tomorrow.  We are going to take it slow up and back with these weather conditions and only hope everyone else takes it easy too.

The temperatures and the rain have also added to our challenge with water in the basement.  One of the patio slabs decided to sink next to the house and thus tore the industrial grade chalking that used to keep water out of the basement.  Tomorrow I hope to find a chalk or other sealant that can be installed in wet freezing weather as the water is already too much in the basement.