My own snow woes!

[Schipperkesue]

Fortunately I have a husband who likes to run machines. The driving paths are cleared by quad and snowblower. The walking paths like the one in the last picture is done by hand. I have about 200' of hand dug paths to get to the various animals. I dig them about 3' wide.

Feel my pain...I have not seen snow like this since I was a little girl. I turned 50 this year.

 

[JDWest]

I think i might have more over at my place Sue. The scary part is it's not even Feb yet and we have this much. Darrell had to pack down trails for us with his snow shoes. I moved the turkey boys in with the chickens to lessen path making. Our Dachshund has been tunneling under and thru the snow like a Das Boot wiener sub! Lol

I've seen snow like this growing up in Smithers and Hazelton B.C. The snow mobiling is bitchin! But weird, cause this year they have hardly any.

 

[concreteblonde]

Yeah, I was sorta thinking the same thing. I turned 54 in Dec. I remember when I was little the snow would get that deep. There are a lot of them out there saying that we are getting ready to enter a mini ice age.

 

[3mina]

Since we got half a winters worth in November, it stands to reason that this year would be interesting.
Just think, everyone is going to be so shocked when we have a late, wet spring. It'll be the biggest news story for weeks. This is very similar to what I remember growing up, then we had twenty years of hardly any.

 

[concreteblonde]

Since we got half a winters worth in November, it stands to reason that this year would be interesting.
Just think, everyone is going to be so shocked when we have a late, wet spring. It'll be the biggest news story for weeks. This is very similar to what I remember growing up, then we had twenty years of hardly any.

It's normal variables. I watched this PBS documentary a while back and they were drilling ice cores, think it was Antarctic.

Anyway, they proved that at one time, back in the time of Jesus that it was a tropical paradise. I'm thinking if it was that hot there, what in the world was it like in FL? And where was there snow?

 

[3mina]

When Antarctica was tropical/seasonal Australia was still attached to it and there was no Florida- it was sea bed.

 

[Schipperkesue]

Definitely more snow when I was a little girl. I remember walking to school when I was 7. The show banks were over my head. Each year as I got older there was less and less snow.

We have already have had a melt before Christmas, yet the in low areas the snow is still waist deep. That is probably why you have accumulated more, JDW. Your property is in a low area were as mine is on a hill. (For those of you who don't know we only live a few miles apart.)

 

[skysthelimit]

I always think of Canada as one vast land of snow. This close to the great lakes, and even when I lived in Pa, ,there were always mounds of snow, at least one major blizzard a year, with 12" of snow at one time. A few years ago, it snowed for three days straight, about 2 feet of snow. I could not get out of the driveway.

It's the bitter cold. Seldom does it get below freezing, and almost never negatives. The city is shut down. The roads are passable, it's just too cold.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

My kids would be in heaven with that much snow! Me? Not so much!

 

[JDWest]

 

[bobqdevon]

And crazy me just rode the ATV to town and back. In negative temps with wind plus riding wind. :slap: :doc: :-x

 

[3mina]

Only for half the year, we're actually quite pretty and green in the summer. Not as green on the prairies but I like it.