From Dusk til Dawn

I took a look out the window early this morning not only to check on the snowfall, fully expecting 4-8" but also to admire the function of my finally installed motion sensor for the garage exterior lights. I have had the motion sensor sitting in the house for days but haven't had the desire to fight with the Hardi-siding since cutting through cementitious siding is no fun. On Tuesday, I drilled a hole, did some cutting and fed the wires into the garage. I still have to figure out how to best secure the sensor since the threaded part isn't long enough to go through the siding and sheathing.


This is the pre-dawn view. The sensor has a dual brightness function so from dusk it will keep the lights on, but dimmed (for 3 hours, 6 hours, or until dawn) until it senses motion and the lights come on full strength. It casts a nice glow over the garage door area.

As for the snow on the ground, I'll be taking measurements every hour on the hour and posting results. At 7:00 it looked like this:


I didn't have the measuring stick in hand for this picture, but I'd put this at about 1/16" . . . it might be 1/8" if a couple snowflakes had fallen on each other, but that doesn't appear to be the case, or the pressure of one on the other melted some of it. Some storm!