This is the first time our cats have seen snow. They were born in the winter but there wasn't much snow to speak of last year.This year we got 3-4 inches of snow at one time. Nearly a week later we were still seeing snow in super shady spots along roads and by buildings even though the temperatures reached well above freezing.
Some of the flakes we saw were well the size of half dollars. For those of you who might not realize money comes in a hard form, and not just your parent's plastic, that would be about two and a half fingers wide.
This picture was taken at the start of the snow fall. As you can see, the houses in the background are just starting to get some snow accumulation on top of their roofs.
That corner you see would be a good spot to put a garden shed, leaving a 5 foot walking area around the side and back for maintenance and mowing. Five feet is about as narrow as you usually would leave a mow strip so that it can both be accessed and be able to have enough light to actually grow grass between a shed and the fence.
Maintenance room is one of those things I really hadn't thought much about when laying out our first house backyard. But then again it already had a shed that was hard to get around. The previous owners had put it caddy corner to the lot footprint and the north corner was a mere two feet and way too shaded to grow anything but saplings which were a huge problem for most of the time we lived there. I should have taken a week or more off just to clean up the backyard but so many thing take up time we never got around to it.
This time we're master planning the yard so that we can make the most of it. The fig tree is a prime example being several feet from the fence to give it adequate room to spread out. Fig trees in our area can get pretty big pretty fast and I'm hoping to train it well so we can get plenty of figs in the coming years. This snow should help it acclimate well. I checked it after the thaw and the branches still looked amazing. So many things we've learned since then and we're going to be implementing a lot of new things going forward.
