The storm brought snow in the rocky mountains, 8″ in some places.  The wind was the worst for us.  Some rain, but mostly wind.

Our hillsides colored up wonderfully, though! 

We are seeing reds and oranges that we haven’t seen for a long time.  The sad part about all this early freezing is many of the farmers in our area lost crops.  The yellow beans froze and many acres of the pinto beans.  The chopping corn froze and so did the pumpkins, and any late sweet corn. (Yes, there were a few fields of late sweet corn.)  Field corn isn’t hurt from freezing; in fact it helps the drying process along.  Onions can sometimes withstand the freeze if it isn’t too thick. 

The growing season is done for alfalfa now, so we only got the three cuttings instead of four.  Four is nice, but three is okay. 

DH is waiting for the field corn to get to 15 moisture, last week it was 18.  With this freeze we might be doing corn in a week or so!