Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Big Freeze


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It had been a very, very mild winter so far. I'd already bought seed potatoes for planting. Then winter came. We get a fair amount of snow usually, but the next day it melts. maybe once a winter we will get a heavy snowfall that stays around for a few days.

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This year it snowed for a week and temperatures didn't get above freezing. As happens regularly when the weather is anything other than normal, ie if it rains a lot, is very windy, etc, the local train line stops running.

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This year many places in the area suffered from burst pipes. It happens sometimes, but this year it happened a lot. Even some of the mains burst and people are still without water. We had a couple of burst pipes as our water lines are outside, but lots of people had burst pipes indoors. Most Japanese houses are not very warm.

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Didn't stop the monkeys though, they need to eat and so a quick trip to our gardens was in order...

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Monday, January 10, 2011

The obligatory annual snow pics

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Its that time of the year again...... its been snowing off and on for a couple of weeks, though it tends to melt during the day....

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For the new year most of the local graves have had fresh flowers...

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My hamlet.

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Snow on bamboo always makes for a good shot.

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The neighboring valley of Tanijyugo where I was heading for Tondo matsuri...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

No work in the garden today :)

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After an unusually warm and wet February, winter returned the last 2 days with non-stop snow.

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The stinkbugs prediction has been somewhat vindicated

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