2005/04/12 – Five Acres with a View

Soggy

Although we still have some large drifts and most of the ground is still covered with snow, everything looks distinctly soggy. The road by our house was plowed at 11:00 am yesterday. Once again I was happy that not only did we find a place on a school bus route, but it is a school bus route that seems to be early on the schedule of places to plow.

I did have to dig the Suburu out of the garage. (We have a huge drift that forms right outside our garage door when we have storms with lots of wind.) Every few years we will have a big storm and I resolve to park the cars at the end of the driveway when a big storm is forecast. Then we get a few overhyped storms and I decide it’s not worth doing so, and leave the cars in the garage so they get snowed in.

Google Satellite

I had heard about the satellite imagery that had been added to Google Maps but didn’t play with it until this morning, when I found this aerial map of our place, the L-shaped house inside the curve of the road. I called Jack in to look at it, and he said “What does that tell you?” “That there is no privacy?”

We spent some time looking at the map, and decided, based on the available clues, that the photos were taken last fall.

I am amazed that I can identify our round pen, stock trailer and propane tank. I was also amused to see that our driveway is in the wrong place according to their algorithm.