Winter's back!

What better way to celebrate the official start to Spring (which was March 20th) than with...SNOW!!

SNOW!!

Here is our first real snow of the season! This is looking out of my bedroom window at the neighbor's house.

Looking out the front door at the well.

Looking from the well down the driveway to the street.

From the street looking back up the driveway at the well. To the right is the casă mare (big house), which is basically just storage. Mama-G used to live in it with her husband (now deceased) and 2 kids, but since it is just her (& lil ol' me) now, we live in the casă mică (small house) together...which is cozy. :o]

Frozen eggs from the chicken coop! 

Iarnă (Winter)!

It seems winter is finally here! It's been sooooooooo cold! That's 7'F, or -14'C! We've only had a little snow so far though...i'm hoping for a LOT more! As you can see, it's in the forecast...hopefully it will come to fruition!

This is the Nistru River in Soroca with frozen chunks of ice floating down and an icy shore.

Preparing for iarnă (winter)

PC $ hard at work...thanks American taxpayers for not letting me freeze this winter! ;op

I walked out of the house this evening and there was an old Soviet-style truck backing into the driveway hauling all this wood for winter! That's Mama-G looking out from it.

Mama-G taught me how to prepare my sobă (a furnace type of thingy which heats the house)!

Step 1: Empty sobă from previous use (charcoalized wood).

Step 2: Gather logs and corn cobs and place in newly cleaned-out sobă.

Step 3: Do not be deceived by Herbalife container...

Step 4: Open Herbalife container while holding breath and take out awful smelling fuel-cube-thingy (1 to start with) and place under log and close Herbalife container so breathing can continue.

Step 5: Obtain lighting source, in this case, matches.

Step 6: Light fuel-cube-thingy with lit match and close sobă door.

Step 7: Get warm. (I don't know what the little door is for) The sobă heats very well...too well actually...every night since we've been using it i wake up sweating and hafta open my window.