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Looks like we got about 6 inches last night. I wish it would go away to some place that needs it, like CO. or WY. Here is a few pics of it behind my house.

If it makes you feel any better, Anchorage is a balmy 38 degrees this morning. The roads are mostly bare and wet, green grass is showing up in peoples' yards already.

Terrible thing for sheep though... they fall off slippery rocks on a regular basis... Crusts up snow wherever there is any and give the wolves a big advantage. Moose won't be liking the warmth either.
art

Art,
It seem's like everything is backward this year. Take a good look at the middle pic and see if you can pick out anything...need a hint? I had forgotten about it when I took the pic this morning. I hate hearing that about the sheep and moose. I didn't know they perfered cold weather.

I am missing the surprise there... ?

It isn't that the critters like the cold so much as it is the ice they dislike. Deep soft snow gives the moose a real advantage. A crust the moose fall through, but still supports a pack of wolves, is deadly to moose. The wolves will go through and simply clean out all of the moose in an area in a heartbeat, eating little of any of them.

Sheep do ok on the ridges where the wind keeps the snow cleared off enough for them to get at the lichens they favor, ice causes them to fall down and covers the lichen...
art

If Art isn't missing it ... I am ... can I have the hint?

George

A,
Look at the big tree to the right, you will see two small Walnuts in front of the bigger Tulip Poplars, the Walnut on the left has a 10 point White tail head in it.

OK, I see it now... barely...

Did you plant the walnuts? Is it an optical delusion that they look like they will get in each other's way growing up? What flavor walnuts are they?

Living here in AK we have lots of hardwood trees, like birch, birch and birch... have always enjoyed walking through deciduous woods...
art

That sure is pretty, glad I get to view it on the computer though.

Art, those are Black Walnut and the squirells planted them. There used to be a very large Walnut tree here in the yard and they had to cut it. These are from it as well as all the others around here. They are too close to the other trees and one or the other will have to go soon. I might cut the Tulip poplars and have them sawed for lumber. Two of them are A #1 trees for lumber, straight, no limbs on them until your about 50-60' up. and about 45" in dia. I have another about 50' from these that is 58" dia. I know I'll be cutting it soon. I'm starting to worry about high winds uprooting it since it so big. I'd hate to wake up with it in my house, if I wake up.....this hollow if full of Poplars and very few Oak, really strange. The Tulip poplar create a perfect enviorment for Morel mushrooms which are delicious, ever try them? Here they are also known as Dry land fish, don't ask me why but the Old folks call them that.
The area behond the Poplar trees is what I watch when hunting from the Deck in back of my house, about 75-100 acres of grown up Dairy pasture. I popped a yearling there this past season. Always seeing White tail over there and some very very nice bucks too!

We get lots of morels here. After a fire the woods are thick with them, generally ours are under cottonwoods. At times they can be picked by the literal bushel. Buyers hang out around right-age burns to buy from commercial pickers.

Those are some dandy trees, for sure!
best to you
art

7400Hunter,

I'll trade ya' right now! Here in my area of central NY we got
36"+ on Christmas and then 20"+ ten days later! After that it was two weeks or so of below zero at night and single digits or teens during the day with not much white stuff. Then it warmed up for a week and it rained one day and we also had a few inches of snow!! Next week back to the real cold again. What a crazy year. I still have snow piles 6 ft. high along the driveway!!! Pray for spring!

Qtip
Soli Deo Gloria

Qtip,
Naa!!!!!!!!! I think I'll just live with what we got here.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You got a pretty view there 74. I woke up this AM with 4" of new snow and 2 "silver foxes" on my patio.

Thanks Wall, I think the storm tracked over us in it's NE direction a little longer than it did you all. Silver Foxes...? like in four legged foxes?

We just got back from the snow...ironic we have to drive to it and some just wish it would go away! Suposed to get down to the 60's tomarrow and may rain...am I not suposed to share in these weather reports? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

I live in Alaska and I have to drive as well just to find good snow. I have ZERO inches at my house, and as Sitka said previously, I'm seeing green grass. Ironic! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> This weather sucks b/c I have a new snowmachine in the backyard with only 100 miles on it. Ouch! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

74, Hey bro, you might be getting somemore snow. Whole bunch of weather crud coming up out of Northern Mexico. Right now it is just a little under freezing here and is starting to spit sleet with a snow flake or two mixed in. Wind is about twenty mph from the northwest. Looks like it is heading your way. The weather boys say maybe one inch on the ground by morning. TXdoT just put out a call for sanding crews to stand by.
Man, ever poor old cow I got will have a two foot hump in her back in the morning. At least I got my tractor plugged in so it will crank. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

BCR

Bruz,
Buddy ole Pal! I'll trade you..............may even throw in a little boot....... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

BCR,
We got what looks like another inch this evening but I don't think it's the one your talking about. I would say what your getting now we will have about tomorrow night. State Police called me today and wanted me to come up the road to pull out my exwife. He had pulled her over thinking the tags had expired and the car slide right on over into the drainage ditch. No one hurt and no damage, just some red faces when I got there. My Grandson was with her and now with me. We are having a good time watching TV and playing PlaystationII. He is my next hunting partner, I plan on taking him hunting this fall for squirrel and maybe some varmit. He just turned 5 and boy is he a wildcat! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

74:

"Silver fox" is what we call coyote around here. We seem to have an abundant supply. I've killed 19 since Christmas. Will try to change those numbers in the AM.