My leukemia's back.

[LittleLakePhil]

I'm so proud of you, Rachel!  Yayyy!!  Now, I have a few here that need culling.........


<Oh, groan>  Somebody help me.....I od'd on Ruffles and French Onion chip dip again.  

Sometimes I have the same problem with Doritos...

 

[N F C]

Hey NFC...don't you ever sleep....

Not much, lol

Just kidding it's just I see your post late....I see you posting early...your as bad add I am.....Phil

I fall asleep just fine but staying asleep is a whole other story. I'm doing good when I get 5 hours in one stretch, usually I get about 4 (and some of that happens when we're trying to watch a DVD).

That was a beautiful sunset picture you posted!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Not much, lol

I fall asleep just fine but staying asleep is a whole other story. I'm doing good when I get 5 hours in one stretch, usually I get about 4 (and some of that happens when we're trying to watch a DVD).

That was a beautiful sunset picture you posted!

Yes sunset was awesome last night...came after a long cold rainy windy miserable day of fishing though. Someone from Florida would have thought I was insane to be fishing in that weather...But you know what I get sick whenever it gets above 80 degrees here. Guess it's just what you are used to.

 

[N F C]

Very true Phil, it's whatever you're used to. My brother has been on us about moving up to WY where he lives now. It's beautiful and I do like it but all that cold and winter scares me, I do not enjoy being cold. At all. We had a couple freezes here last winter and it was miserable enough, lol.

So did you catch any fish last night or just a pretty sunset?

 

[Blooie]

But it's only cold and wintery for a couple of months, NFC....well, a few months...... our summers are hot but dry. It's weird that here we have so many micro-climates. Divide the state into quadrants. For instance, on the Buffalo/Sheridan/Gillette side of the Big Horns, they tend to get a lot of snow and wind. In the south eastern part of the state, around Cheyenne/Wheatland, driving snowstorms and heavy winds are the norm. South Central, Laramie/Rock Springs it's just plain brutal. The Western part of the state, with the really high mountains from Evanston up to Pinedale up through Jackson and the Parks (Grand Teton and Yellowstone) it's exactly what you'd expect in that kind of terrain....tons of snow, winds, and cold. Evanston, which is in the southwestern corner of the state, doesn't have much for mountains in the immediate area but storms funnel through the gap and they are ugly!

Then you have the lima bean, where we live. If you look at a map of Wyoming, you'll notice that up by the Montana border between the Big Horn and the Absaroka/Bear Tooth mountains, Cowley sits just south of the state line. The area is called the Big Horn Basin, and it encompasses the large area that starts up by us, runs south to Worland, west to Cody, and back up. It looks like a lima bean on the map. We are the banana belt of Wyoming. Surrounded by mountains like we are and being high desert, we don't get much snow. We've used a shovel on snow probably 3 times in the almost 20 years we've been here. The rest of the time we sweep it off. What falls is usually dry and powdery. That's a generality - we do see heavy, wet snows from time to time, but not near what the rest of the state gets. We'll have times when it's so cold you have to chip the neighbor's dog off your tire to go to the store. And we get winds. Brother do we get winds!! Quite often it can be snowing like crazy in Cody and here, just 50 miles away, we have sunshine and blue skies. There's a community near Cody, Clark, where they get the state's heaviest winds....a year or so ago they recorded 114mph winds. Roofs on houses in Clark are often anchored deeply into the ground with a series of cables. Here in Cowley we can often watch the big storms moving in, bump into the mountains, and just follow them rather than dump on us. And the mountains seem to wring a lot of the moisture out of the clouds before they get to us.

So it's not all bad, honestly!

 

[N F C]

But it's only cold and wintery for a couple of months, NFC....well, a few months...... our summers are hot but dry. It's weird that here we have so many micro-climates. Divide the state into quadrants. For instance, on the Buffalo/Sheridan/Gillette side of the Big Horns, they tend to get a lot of snow and wind. In the south eastern part of the state, around Cheyenne/Wheatland, driving snowstorms and heavy winds are the norm. South Central, Laramie/Rock Springs it's just plain brutal. The Western part of the state, with the really high mountains from Evanston up to Pinedale up through Jackson and the Parks (Grand Teton and Yellowstone) it's exactly what you'd expect in that kind of terrain....tons of snow, winds, and cold. Evanston, which is in the southwestern corner of the state, doesn't have much for mountains in the immediate area but storms funnel through the gap and they are ugly!

Then you have the lima bean, where we live. If you look at a map of Wyoming, you'll notice that up by the Montana border between the Big Horn and the Absaroka/Bear Tooth mountains, Cowley sits just south of the state line. The area is called the Big Horn Basin, and it encompasses the large area that starts up by us, runs south to Worland, west to Cody, and back up. It looks like a lima bean on the map. We are the banana belt of Wyoming. Surrounded by mountains like we are and being high desert, we don't get much snow. We've used a shovel on snow probably 3 times in the almost 20 years we've been here. The rest of the time we sweep it off. What falls is usually dry and powdery. That's a generality - we do see heavy, wet snows from time to time, but not near what the rest of the state gets. We'll have times when it's so cold you have to chip the neighbor's dog off your tire to go to the store. And we get winds. Brother do we get winds!! Quite often it can be snowing like crazy in Cody and here, just 50 miles away, we have sunshine and blue skies. There's a community near Cody, Clark, where they get the state's heaviest winds....a year or so ago they recorded 114mph winds. Roofs on houses in Clark are often anchored deeply into the ground with a series of cables. Here in Cowley we can often watch the big storms moving in, bump into the mountains, and just follow them rather than dump on us. And the mountains seem to wring a lot of the moisture out of the clouds before they get to us.

So it's not all bad, honestly!

See the part I bolded? That's the area he wants us to move to (he's in Cheyenne and my cuz is in Laramie). "Driving snowstorms and heavy winds"..."just plain brutal". Are you kidding me? What kind of nut moves from Florida to Wyoming? Oh, yeah, my brother, lol.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Very true Phil, it's whatever you're used to. My brother has been on us about moving up to WY where he lives now. It's beautiful and I do like it but all that cold and winter scares me, I do not enjoy being cold. At all. We had a couple freezes here last winter and it was miserable enough, lol.

So did you catch any fish last night or just a pretty sunset?

Yes the walleye were biting real good. I filleted them out share some with a few neighbours and put the rest in the freezer.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I live in what they call"the snow belt" we get all that lake effect snow off the Lake Superior. Just 9 miles south they get a third of the snow we get. Then 40 miles to the south in Escanaba "the banana belt" they get no where near what we get.

 

[donrae]

Well, I've got cool and drizzling here, perfect Oregon weather! We're glad to get the rain, and I'm interested to see how my breeding pens hold up through the winter. I wanted to build a bunch more this fall, but decided waiting until spring will be best so we know if we need to fine tune anything. I did have an interesting issue with them...on the middle one, where the tarp roof doesn't sit down on the roof but is stretched over the top, I think the barn cat tried to walk across there and went through the tarp. There's a cat-sized hole in my roof

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I bought four new hens yesterday, to get some layers. Two each Australorps and Light Brahmas. Then Honey and Echo helped me move a bunch of birds around last night to get everyone situated. And now, the cockerels are in a smaller pen, where I can catch one more easily when I want to butcher!


I finally got all my incubator extra parts, etc moved off the wood box so we can start running a fire in the mornings, that's a chore that's been needing to be done. And a general cleaning up of my area in the dining room, funny how things start to take over. I think it was lazygardener that proposed having all horizontal surfaces at a 45 degree angle....that's about what it would take around here. Any flat surface.....

 

[lazy gardener]

Blooie, seems to me that all the regions of your state are brutal! Perhaps even worse than my fair state. We started splitting our wood Fri night, did a lot more Sat. Still a good sized pile to do. Rainy today, followed by some nasty migraines, not to mention the sore muscles that have been dogging me all week. Still have to skirt the new chicken run. Have had a squirrel sneaking in, I think to steal eggs. Tried to introduce him to the .22 the other day, but missed. If I'm able to take care of that squirrel, I'll try processing him! Nice looking fish, Phil!