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But be soooooo cold, and where do you hide Chloe when you are working ?
Mom's ?
You could travis her behind Lacey !
It will be cold, but better than the big all day drive in the snow.
And we are southwest of you, Illia is north of us, so typically in winter Illia gets it if it comes from the northwest and we get it if it comes from the southwest...from the north, down from Canada into Bellingham is the snowy COLD stuff.
I really do not mind the snow...It is the intense cold, from 30 and down betond, that I am not fond of at all, like 20 below zero, for example, where the roosters' comb freezes and turns black and we have to cut the necrotic tissue off and carterize, where everything freezes and trees explode...been there, don't want that ever again.
North Idaho was cold like that, from late December until the 16th of January, when the Chinook winds blow through and in 24 hrs it was 60 above...everything meted (but the sub soil) and all the snow slid off the roof, and we went outside in wonder...and old Indian said this is the Chinook wind, comes evey year in the vacinity of the 16th of Januray, stays a few days and sure enough by the 19th it was freezing and snowing again.
Watch for the Chinook winds this year, see if we have it here in WA, we should.
I want to learn the whole native story about the Chinook wind someday...
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Everyone at Stevenson show today ?
Chloe goes to work with me on most days. But the days that I might have to ride to work, or drive in the snow, I will be leaving her with my mom.
We are however in the process of training Chloe's pony to pull a sled on skids. That way, "if/when" we do get snowed in, we can still get to and from the store "3 miles away" and be able to bring grocerys to our neighbors as well. We have 3 elderly neighbors that we help care for year round, but in the winter we get even more involved. Gotta make sure our elders are cared for and comfortable through the winter. I split, haul, and stack wood for a couple of my elder neighbors. I don't mind the extra work, and they appreciate the help.
Yes in January we do get some warmer winds that come, and thaw just about everything. And then we usually do get another hard freeze within a week afterwards. Makes things a massive mess around here, when it snows, melts, then we get a hard freez... Turns all the roads into sheet ice.
I wonder if I will have another upside down vehicle in my yard this winter... Every year, iether on my mothers property or mine, we have someone who thinks that just because our section of the road is straight, that it means that you can speed up... Well it doesnt work out to well in their favor, and in five years we have had five vehicles in iether of our yards... The first year a truck went through my moms fence and took out her wood shed, the next year someone hit one of my larger Hawthorn trees, our mail boxes have been wiped out twice, and the telephone pole at the road was taken out as well... So far every year someone winds up iether upside down or on their side...
See if I was actually out in the sticks this wouldn't happen as frequently. lol
