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[pennyJo1960]

Hey Old Folks still alive with the best neighbors.
No snow here so far been a few years.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hi

 

[CanuckBock]

We have not had snow here in many years!

I love the pictures.

Heel low:

Yes, I looked that up (January 28, 2002)...over TWENTY-FOUR years with no measurable snows. I'd wither and up & die!!

This was Sunday...usually if the grass is under the snow (and parts keep melting off...on & off all winter this season!), it stays green...but this year, lots of burnt browns where it gets covered by snow and then melts off...repeat repeat REPEAT. Quite frankly, I like summer or winter, I don't prefer spring & fall with its mud and ice (been wearing ice cleats on our boots since like Sept).

Today, same scene with snow showing up overnight. YAH!

You may judge the depth of the white dump because many of the surfaces were bald!!

Day break today. Gotta, jest gotta have me a nice dry, sand like (no snowball making!) powder. Then the sun comes out and puts diamonds all over the place.

Then around noon...all sparkly and smooth with bright white background. It really is not that terrible to have snow...got the tractor to move it off, a broom will sweep the needed areas and a leaf blower just blasts the dry snow away.

And it gives one free rein to eat BACON! Lotsa bacon because you burn off the calories doing chores!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[ronott1]

Heel low:

Yes, I looked that up (January 28, 2002)...over TWENTY-FOUR years with no measurable snows. I'd wither and up & die!!

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This was Sunday...usually if the grass is under the snow (and parts keep melting off...on & off all winter this season!), it stays green...but this year, lots of burnt browns where it gets covered by snow and then melts off...repeat repeat REPEAT. Quite frankly, I like summer or winter, I don't prefer spring & fall with its mud and ice (been wearing ice cleats on our boots since like Sept).

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Today, same scene with snow showing up overnight. YAH!

You may judge the depth of the white dump because many of the surfaces were bald!!

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Day break today. Gotta, jest gotta have me a nice dry, sand like (no snowball making!) powder. Then the sun comes out and puts diamonds all over the place.

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Then around noon...all sparkly and smooth with bright white background. It really is not that terrible to have snow...got the tractor to move it off, a broom will sweep the needed areas and a leaf blower just blasts the dry snow away.

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And it gives one free rein to eat BACON! Lotsa bacon because you burn off the calories doing chores!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

I do feel like withering up on days over 115F

Now I want bacon....

 

[CanuckBock]

I do feel like withering up on days over 115F

Now I want bacon....

Heel low:

Bwa ha ha...now we ALL want bacon.

Laughed at my son...in the 1st place of his own...he displayed this! Taugh him up right, eh?

Well we did stop in Kamloops (province of British Columbia, Interior) on our way here to Alberta...rented and tried to purchase property there thinking it was where we might want to plant roots. Uh, no. Decided we did not want to live any place where you could grow apricots. LOL

So we up and moved again and it was 110F in the shade the day of...one of the trucks we rented for the move had air conditioning, so we spent a few more hours in lawn chairs in the back of the moving van recovering. Not sure how to handle intense heat...just know I don't function well in it.

We're all good where we are. Different climates, conditions, areas and simply put, that's what works. Just like the chickens.

We don't have the birds with huge combs/wattles as those parts freeze. So we have Chanteclers with cushion combs, Wyandottes with rose, and Brahmas with pea. Works jest fine.

The birds don't need to exchange heat via their head gear. And there is not an Alberta roo that don't know how to tuck his head under his wing on extra nippy nights.

One could profess that feathered legs help too with the cold but that is an utter lie. The birds don't have much circulation in their legs, so best we keep them indoors in their coops when the ground is covered in snow.

Shaded areas are still snow bound so be a few more months before the runs are free of the white. Around the end of May, the grass is green, majority of the snow is gone.

Quite a few of us Northerners, we take up crafting that is done inside. I took a workshop middle of January to learn how to make a beaded landyard and been beading ever since...because I can & it keeps us old folks from creating chaos, out playing in traffic.

Now I gotta go crank out some more pairs of socks as my spouse has worn one too many holes in the heels of the ones I've made him...past the point of darning's worth. Takes a coupla hours to knit them and a bit to graph toes, sitting listening to TV.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada