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…
Category: Weather
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…
Get Rich
When we heard there might be an April snowstorm, it wasn’t a surprise. It’s not unusual. So six inches of snow appeared… That’s Lorelei, heading back to the house after helping me feed the chickens. Do you notice anything between her and I? Well, funny little story on the side… We were headed to the…
Being Grateful
The snow has disappeared again. We’ve suffered through a couple of days of strong winds with that snow… and the guys are making regular trips through the cows. Our heifers are down to the last few, but now the cows are starting to calve. It was miserable with the wind chill, thankfully, we made it…
Thoughts on Spring Snowstorm – Video
Oh, just some off the cuff remarks about this new spring snowstorm… just when things were starting to dry up, warm up, and look like Real Spring had arrived! Nope.
Ugly
An amazing amount of snow has melted with warmer temperatures and warmer breezes. While flat fields still hold their snow, anything tipped slightly with a southern exposure has become either mush, slush, water, or mud! It makes it interesting when we feed, the ruts in the road are deepening… I drove the tractor again for…