As calving season creeps closer, we keep an even closer eye on the weather if that’s possible. We should have been calving in January as nice as the weather has been. This last snowstorm was predicted to be either 1”-3” or 3”-5” depending on which weather app you wanted to believe. Thursday morning I measured…
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Gathering Between Storms
I thought it was going to be UGLY. We knew this winter storm was on the way, but because of the appointment with our vet on Friday to preg test the last of our cows, Thursday and Friday were full. Saturday it rained (ACTUAL RAIN!) giving us .65″ in total. What that does to our…
Yay!
Rain. Wonderful, amazing rain. My weather station measured .91”, almost an entire inch! And we have a chance for more tomorrow! While those of you reeling from Tropical Storm Fred are currently laughing at my delight for not quite an inch… remember, last year we received less than 7” TOTAL. Average is 14” per year,…
#TBT: Dirt Slick, v.2.0
Sorry this is so late. My internet went out just as I was about to post this last night. This was first posted May 25, 2010. FINALLY! A gorgeous day… not a cloud in the sky. Snow on the mountain, yes, but VERY nice here. Plus the creek DIDN’T flood the way the National Weather…
#TBT: Blooming Snow, v.2.0
This was first posted April 1, 2010. Sure enough, it is almost Easter… and so a snowstorm has hit! I went to Worland tonight to a Pet First Aid Class… and decided to take this photo of our mailbox as I drove in just half an hour ago. Though we only have 3 inches or…
Mountain Winter, or Lack Thereof
We drove up the mountain the other day. Seriously. In December. In the side by side. All the way to the top. In December. December. The smidge of snow is definitely unusual. We shouldn’t be able to get here except by snomobile. This makes us just a bit nervous, even though we know that most…
Fog over the Big Horn Basin
Vernon ran up to check the water in the Mesa Pasture first thing this morning. Fog lay thick in the bottoms and he drove out of it as he climbed in elevation. I posted a cool video he took on Facebook. I thought, people will think this is very cool. Well, a few did! I…
A Little Bit Better
While I babysat and entertained some visitors, the rest of our crew was cowboying on the snowy mountain pasture. This, after getting a slow start because the calves had escaped their pasture and needed to be herded back to their proper location. Some days on horseback in the snow can still be quite warm… but…
Dodge
We definitely dodged that bullet. It snowed here, lightly, briefly, and none of it stuck on the grass. The low temperature was only 34 degrees at my house. We received .29″ of rain, which was wonderful. The rest of Wyoming was not so lucky. Snow fell and stacked up and the wind howled. I’ve seen…
Clear Blue Skies
The talk of the past few days… Here’s a photo I took some weeks ago. Here’s the one I took today. Smoke from all over the west, California, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon has enveloped Wyoming. Not that we don’t have our own fires. Facebook has been full of everyone posting photos of the sun. A…
Level of Green
If you read my Throwback Thursday post from yesterday, you can compare notes and photos. In 2009, I mentioned how green everything was… how tall the grass was… how it was just WET and GREEN. Not so this year. We haven’t had a good measurable rain since April… I’m not counting the quick bursts of…
8. 9. 10.
8. 9. 10. The guys weren’t really sure how many fires there were from the storm cell that passed us yesterday. With little rain but a fair amount of lightning, we had trees popping up on fire all around. Megan and Tess were gone with the boys, I picked up Lorelei from a babysitter and…