The Snow Won’t Go!

 After five days the snow looks almost like it did when it first finished falling!

When our frozen pipes thawed, it turned out that we had a burst pipe at one of our outside showers.  Our neighbor spotted it and turned our water off, then our other neighbor, Javier, went over and fixed it without our even asking.  Ocracoke is always the best place to live!

The flower beds were all prepped at Christmas time, so, they were really happy for the snow to come.  I fed them as the snow came, then the melting snow will take the food down to where it needs to be.

The best thing about being home was this:  Josh Goforth came for the week at our house and we had a great snow time visit.  We were supposed to leave on Wednesday and would have missed his performances.  Since we were stuck at home, we got to still be on the island for a wonderful Friday evening show with Josh playing with our own Martin Garrish and magical twelve-year-old Dallas Mason.  It was an evening of magic in the middle of winter.

Another reason to live where we live!

We love the way this community all works together.

Snow Birds!

 More snow fell yesterday afternoon and we started worrying about the songbirds.  The entire world was under deep snow and there was nothing natural exposed for them to eat. So, Trish filled two of our larger bird feeders and put them right on our decks where we could watch them from the windows…in normal times the birds would never come this close and it might take them several days to find the feeders when we first out them up.  Not so yesterday!

In no time the mourning doves located the feeders and they seemed to call all the other birds to join them!

We had brown catbirds, purple finches, house finches, and multiple small songbirds.  Then the cardinals arrived.

First one female, then another female, them another female.  It is unusual for cardinals to feed near one another, so, three females in one spot  was a treasure.

Then the males arrived. First one and then a second.  We never saw three males at once, but they really worked the feeders up until the edge of darkness.  It was beautiful.

Today they have not been back yet.  Maybe they found other food or maybe they will come this afternoon.  Whatever, we hope they are well fed. 

Ocracoke Snow!

 I have lived in the island more than thirty years, and, this is the biggest snowfall in that whole period of time.

It started snowing about eight pm last night and didn’t stop until noon today.  The accumulated total this morning was ten inches and by the time it stopped we had a good eleven inches on our decks.

Josh Goforth is with us this week.  We couldn’t get out of the house until Josh, who is staying in our guest house next door, shoveled a way for us!  In no time the path was again filling with snow.

We rode all around the village looking at the beauty everywhere.  It is almost unbelievable!

When we drove out to the beach, the wind was bone-chilling, but, we had to take a look at snow down to the ocean.  The strong winds not only blew the snow, it sent us all back home in a hurry!  What a fine day!