We woke up to snow this morning! Although it IS melting, it’s still snow. Sure seems early this year.
Terry and I worked on the fire roads. We have one that is a pain in the ….well, you know what.
Yep, Terry is stuck…that’s a chain, whereby I’m pulling him out. This particular spot is a real struggle. Twice a year we clear and clean and create making it safe to get to the rest of the farm.
Fire is a mighty and very scary thing.
Boomer worked right along side of us, up and down, back and forth…over and over again.
Right now the wind is blowing, sharp and cold; pushing the clouds toward the north and the east, mud is appearing where the snow once was. Work on the fire roads has ended for the year.
Your friend on a very muddy western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
We have some spots like that too that need to be maintained and we have a lot that goes through wooded areas that need to be cut out quite often.
We didn’t have snow Sunday and Monday but we had a cold driving rain that felt like ice. Yesterday was warmer but the wind didn’t make it feel any warmer.
You guys stay safe and yes, old man winter is upon us!
Rita
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Yes, I do believe winter has arrived. You have lots of woods, forests and other things to take care of, much more than us. All terribly frightening if there is a fire.
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sorry about the storm. just love boomer!
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Hope you get some moisture from this system!
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Fire prep happens wherever you are. For us, it’s early spring, before storm season brings the heat and big thunderstorms that start so many natural (as opposed to man-made) fires. For weeks, the hills are covered in a thin haze of smoke, where fire mitigation burns are going on to clear old dry vegetation. It’s inconvenient, that smoke, but it sure is necessary to deprive the big, scary fires of fuel. As you say “fire is a mighty and scary thing”…
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It is. We do it twice a year…early spring and late fall. After two very bad fires caused by different neighbors of ours, we are diligent with the fire roads.
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Not much fun being stuck in mud, I presume.
I think what you mean by “fire roads” we call here “fire breaks”.
Who owns the skewball horse or as I think you call this coloration
of a horse in the US – a pinto??
Oh God – no I don’t mean four legged pinto beans – ha ha!
Overcast here – it has been raining on and off all week so far here in
Brisbane, but the good news it is pretty well wide spread rain so
the outback is getting some also.
Cheers
Colin
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Romeo the horse belongs to our oldest daughter. They live next to us, horse, dogs, cats, chickens and she and Jason.
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I just love it when they get stuck. Lol! NOT!
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Not good is it? 😦
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We have had some welcome rain, but I’m not ready to declare cold weather to be here yet.And snow? 😦
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I’m not ready for snow either. 😦
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We have had some welcome rain, but I’m not ready to declare the beginning of cold season yet. And snow 😦
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RAIN! I’m so glad you are getting some. I watch the weather maps to see how California is doing, hoping for rain for all of you!
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My comments aren’t coming through
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They are here!
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Looks like hard work, Linda. You sure are smart to know how to do all that, and then get your husband unstuck too! Hope your weather gets a bit better and your sun starts to shine!
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Not a job I enjoy….would much prefer doing ANYTHING else!
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It is interesting reading about your climate and the jobs you have to do round the farm. We have our certain jobs for certain seasons but they are so different from yours. Glad you have Boomer to ‘help’.
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Terry says the jobs are starting to feel like real work.
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Don’t envy you there with that cold…. still high 70s here, but the weather should break soon for rains – still out there watering the veggies! Oh well. Still, keep warm 🙂
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Sigh! Lucky, lucky you!
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Our fire trails or fire breaks are usually maintained coming into Summer, so interesting that you do them coming into winter. I love comparing our seasons and farming operations across the many miles.
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