The Four Seasons

This super wet snow came five days ago  

It was sunny and warm just an hour before this photo was taken

First Snow

Our first snow was pretty late this year; also very minimal coating. We usually get a pretty good snow by around Halloween. Our last four winters have been pretty intense and I've heard people say last winter was the best powder/ boarding/skiing season ever. So it makes sense we are getting a tame winter. Seems we are starting off winter true to the Farmer's Almanac's prediction of a drier and warmer one. Global warming is a hippie scam. Just pay attention to nature's cycles.

Winter

The last four months in a nutshell:

new ceiling fan helping us heat our house with just the wood stove (second year now without any other heat sources!

home sweet home:

we are still alive

just to update after almost a month, we had a few out of town visitors and have been very busy around here. almost ready for next season, wood shed is half full. and everyday that it's nice enough i continue to get loads of wood up to the house. this might be the year i get all the dead trees cleared up.

snowbrew

nice snowy day off, why not have a homebrew?!?



got ingredients for a true american style imperial IPA...should be delicious and taking a reading of the dark ale today..that will be delicious.

Snowed in!!!

here is the sunset from a few nights ago...some snow...



then today..snowed in!

more snow, bigger garden, improvements all around

pulled up thirty feet of chainlink to make garden bigger...small break in the snow to get something done on the days off

feels really nice to just walk in the gate and be able to walk halfway down the hill to the garlic and shallots. hopefully benefiting from the snowmelt under the straw mulch...soil i dug up today looked rich and black with a good ratio of manure and straw

snow!!!

usually there is a nice view of the mountains from these windows...but today just snow...lots of it

snow in the mountains!

here is the garden in snow this morning

window birdfeeder/thermometer

post holiday weekend

firewood stacked and covered

pre-thanksgiving fire pit