BYC Café

[Mtn Margie]

Nice snow - you guys have a lot! Margie, how long do your kids have to ride on the bus to get to school (on a normal day)? Do they ever cancel school?

Here they cancel is the windchill is a minimum of -40. Snow is never an issue because of plows..it's always just the temps.

I would say 40 minutes. The HS and Elementary all ride the same bus and school has been cancelled through the years from :
cold temps -29F
wind =multiple times +120mph notable= +200mph microbursts that knocked power out for a few days, dropped trees like toothpicks
fire = multiple times
flood = 1 week out historic flood that really screwed things up! And then we had to drive to a different but stop. There was no getting a bus in the ranch for months.
snow depth , multiple, notable= 1 week for a 7 foot snow that was totally amazing and fun, it would have been longer but it happened the week before Spring Break...

Basically, you need to have a sense of humor around this place and
"pull yerself up by yer bootstraps" kind of attitude or you go wacky and move away. It is kind of a joke around here after something nuts happens and we wonder how many houses will go up for sale.....
There was a crazy old man, he is gone now thank goodness, that would never speak to anyone that had not lived through three years up here. You literally did not exist to him until you proved yourself. I of course made it my mission to harass him because, well just because.....

 

[Mtn Margie]

oh, it is -10 F and I really need some hot coffee!!!!

 

[sourland]

There was a crazy old man, he is gone now thank goodness, that would never speak to anyone that had not lived through three years up here. You literally did not exist to him until you proved yourself. I of course made it my mission to harass him because, well just because.....

We have lived in our home for 50 + years but are still newcomers to families who have lived here for many generations.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day. I just came in from trying to kill myself on a Norwegian Kicksled. It was awesome!
We got the steering figured out after a bit, crash tested it and then son (let's call him gullible ) and I rocked it.

Then we hiked out to the lake and I showed him the moose tracks. The morning started out by loading a third of a cord of firewood (that we dug out yesterday) to sell to a neighbor but first my older son and I had to help another neighbor drag his llama that had died in the night, down the hill, out of the way and far enough away so that the predators don't come in close.
I would like to say that dragging a llama through waist deep snow, even with three people, is somethin' and I do mean somethin'.
My son just looked at me weird when I was trying to get to the wood and I said that there was a dead llama in the way, I think he thought his Mom had lost it, but I fooled him and made him work. I think the llama was like 35 years old or something crazy like that. She was ancient when we rescued her 12 years ago, but that is another story.
There is always something going on around this place for sure. I think the word of the day is "somethin!"

 

[krista74]

Krista is drinking her coffee and having a giggle

 

[sourland]

Not everyone gets to drag a dead llama - memorable day for sure.

 

[krista74]

Good morning all. No llamas here (that I'm aware of, lol!).

I was wondering though, do you all have many snakes where you are?

The reason I ask is that we have had not one but TWO brown snakes in our coop this year.

Our area has three main types of snakes - Tiger Snakes (highly poisonous, but rare in this particular area), Red Belly Black Snakes (again, highly poisonous but not overtly aggressive, and would sooner run away than attack) and Brown Snakes (highly poisonous, very aggressive, likely to attack.)

So as you can see, my visitors were most unwelcome in the coop.

I am not a country person by nature - I came here from town to marry my now husband, and country life was new to me. I've dealt with bushfires, floods, spiders, frogs, kangaroos bouncing around my back yard and all manner of other things. Took them all in my stride. But snakes? Noooo, I can't cope with that.

I am so paranoid going in my coop now, which is really sad since I used to love to sit in there while the girls laid their daily eggs. Not that anyone is laying at the moment - everyone is heat affected, broody or moulting. I am down to my last carton of eggs and am hoping some come back on the lay soon

Wishing you all a wonderful day.

- Krista

 

[lularat]

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day. I just came in from trying to kill myself on a Norwegian Kicksled. It was awesome!
We got the steering figured out after a bit, crash tested it and then son (let's call him gullible ) and I rocked it.

Then we hiked out to the lake and I showed him the moose tracks. The morning started out by loading a third of a cord of firewood (that we dug out yesterday) to sell to a neighbor but first my older son and I had to help another neighbor drag his llama that had died in the night, down the hill, out of the way and far enough away so that the predators don't come in close.
I would like to say that dragging a llama through waist deep snow, even with three people, is somethin' and I do mean somethin'.
My son just looked at me weird when I was trying to get to the wood and I said that there was a dead llama in the way, I think he thought his Mom had lost it, but I fooled him and made him work. I think the llama was like 35 years old or something crazy like that. She was ancient when we rescued her 12 years ago, but that is another story.
There is always something going on around this place for sure. I think the word of the day is "somethin!"

You certainly have somethin going and never a dull moment for sure. The snow pictures were awsome!

Good morning all. No llamas here (that I'm aware of, lol!).

I was wondering though, do you all have many snakes where you are?

The reason I ask is that we have had not one but TWO brown snakes in our coop this year.

Our area has three main types of snakes - Tiger Snakes (highly poisonous, but rare in this particular area), Red Belly Black Snakes (again, highly poisonous but not overtly aggressive, and would sooner run away than attack) and Brown Snakes (highly poisonous, very aggressive, likely to attack.)

So as you can see, my visitors were most unwelcome in the coop.

I am not a country person by nature - I came here from town to marry my now husband, and country life was new to me. I've dealt with bushfires, floods, spiders, frogs, kangaroos bouncing around my back yard and all manner of other things. Took them all in my stride. But snakes? Noooo, I can't cope with that.

I am so paranoid going in my coop now, which is really sad since I used to love to sit in there while the girls laid their daily eggs. Not that anyone is laying at the moment - everyone is heat affected, broody or moulting. I am down to my last carton of eggs and am hoping some come back on the lay soon

Wishing you all a wonderful day.

- Krista

We have a variety of snakes in our area...the poisonous ones are the Cottonmouth Moccasins, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes, and Copperheads. Luckily, I live in town, and usually only see garter snakes.

 

[scottcaddy]

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day. I just came in from trying to kill myself on a Norwegian Kicksled. It was awesome!
We got the steering figured out after a bit, crash tested it and then son (let's call him gullible ) and I rocked it.

Then we hiked out to the lake and I showed him the moose tracks. The morning started out by loading a third of a cord of firewood (that we dug out yesterday) to sell to a neighbor but first my older son and I had to help another neighbor drag his llama that had died in the night, down the hill, out of the way and far enough away so that the predators don't come in close.
I would like to say that dragging a llama through waist deep snow, even with three people, is somethin' and I do mean somethin'.
My son just looked at me weird when I was trying to get to the wood and I said that there was a dead llama in the way, I think he thought his Mom had lost it, but I fooled him and made him work. I think the llama was like 35 years old or something crazy like that. She was ancient when we rescued her 12 years ago, but that is another story.
There is always something going on around this place for sure. I think the word of the day is "somethin!"

Did your kicksled look something like this one?

We got used to kicksleds in the UP of MI back in our miss-spent youth, seen several ways to power them. Downhill is way tooooo much fun.
Glad to hear all are doing well after the ride!
Edit to add Sorry about the Llama.

Scott

 

[Mtn Margie]

I would say more rustic.... "We got used to kicksleds in the UP of MI back in our miss-spent youth," Seriously?! How else is a 50 + year old Grandma supposed to spend the day?