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Yep! Well, not the snowboarding part....but the rest of it is good.


We are going to try and move the cows home next couple of days. If we can get across the creek.

What a bloody mess. Move the cows from where the snow is gone to where the snow is still balls deep!


Your snow about gone Sam?

Jim, your creek runnin'?


Things are just starting to thaw here and a few brown spots are showing up in the hills. The river bottom is basically a foot of heavy snow everywhere, 'warm' but cloudy so very little actual melting. Hopefully most of the moisture in the hills has a chance to soak in.

I did see that the ice is off the river today.

Finally got my garden all planted, can’t wait for tomatoes with taste!

SammO & Jim,

I completely understand your perspective.

When we moved to Canada, from sub tropical Australia, we had to make a conscious decision to utilize winter to it's fullest & to our advantage.

We would have gone totally battschitte crazy, had we be contained inside, for 6-7 months !

Paul, you gotta keep movin' or you die!


Calving bred heifers right now. 4 new babies last night!

Just got back up and am ready to go back to bed...


Later.

Good deal Jim, glad to see you got 'em home!


Bet you're glad you aren't calving....



The big thaw is coming!

That’s a lot of snow left for this time of year, you probably don’t have to plow a road very often in late March.

Jimbo,

Arctic Crap, REALLY !!

Hey, its got a Yamaha motor!

Yeah, OK then.

Fun vids. Thanks!

Gonna need an airboat instead of a snowmachine before too long!

It is muddy in Iowa.

This was just a little pot hole, we're hoping the creek doesn't douche us out!

Awesome, better than sitting at a desk all day!!!

Pumping out mud puddles is fairly low on the list but I didn't have any thing else to do!

I think the snow will be shrunk down enough by the weekend that a guy will be able to get around the river bottom 'off road' on a sxs or 4 wheeler.


Then it's time to get some gates shut and start fixing fence in hopes of keeping the cows contained. They get cocky and wander off when the weather warms up. We like them to be in a 'known' area when they start having calves.

With as much snow as there is on the highline, could get interesting down stream this spring. Starting to get sloppy around here, and we are just starting to melt.