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First sign spring may come yet.

I much prefer polled larks because of the labor it saves each fall. You try dehorning a bird if you don't believe me! :wink: The geese out here are flying east and west as neither they nor spring can make up their minds! :roll:
 
We had 3" of rain Sunday night with +54F over night temps on top of 6" of hard packed snow.

Many of the county roads were washed out and we had quite a mess.

Last night we were treated to 5" more rain and this morning made last monday look like a walk in the park.

I have only lived here sinse 1971 but it is the worst flooding I have seen. I loaned my sand bag filler to the county hiway dept and they have inmates from the local jail filling bags that people can come and get for free. I made the bagger several years ago. Keep filling the hopper with a skid steer or back hoe and it has a height ajustment for the platform the bag sits on for different length bags. Fill them like feed sacks at the elavator and sit them over for the next guy to tie.

I made it in about 1973 when there was wide spread flooding in southern Indiana and the Army Corp of Engineers offered $0.10 @ to fill sand bags so I built the machine and took three guys with me and we split the money - - - -Made about $50.00 per hour each for about a week. Not bad money for dumb grunt work. Most of the people there were filling with shovels and made about $5.00 per hour and I guarantee they worked much harder than we did.
 
I bet three people that spring wasn't coming this year. Two of them have already paid me.
 
Big wind last night, drifted about 1/2 of the driveway in. Got that plowed this morning so I could get to Morrison Meadow to feed. 6 miles away and 600 ft. lower, very little drifting.
Beautiful sunny day today, got up to 5 C. Been snowing hard for about an hour now, 2 inches already. I'm guessing that we have had between 5 and 6 feet of accumulated snow so far this winter. March can be a big snow month also.
Our oldest son is logging not far north and east of Quesnel - near Barkerville. They are fighting 8 feet of settled snow.
 
leanin' H said:
I much prefer polled larks because of the labor it saves each fall. You try dehorning a bird if you don't believe me! :wink: The geese out here are flying east and west as neither they nor spring can make up their minds! :roll:
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Ground squirrels galore, geese are here on the ponds that are partially open, saw the first two killdeer today, and most exciting of all...found two buttercup buds!!!! Hope they open by wednesday cause it's the neighbors birthday and I always try to take her a buttercup. :) Was cold and windy today tho, I wouldn't have opened up either.
 
Nicky said:
Ground squirrels galore, geese are here on the ponds that are partially open, saw the first two killdeer today, and most exciting of all...found two buttercup buds!!!! Hope they open by wednesday cause it's the neighbors birthday and I always try to take her a buttercup. :) Was cold and windy today tho, I wouldn't have opened up either.
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You are a good month and a half ahead of us, glad to hear it is slowly working it's way north. :) :)
 
Nicky said:
Ground squirrels galore, geese are here on the ponds that are partially open, saw the first two killdeer today, and most exciting of all...found two buttercup buds!!!! Hope they open by wednesday cause it's the neighbors birthday and I always try to take her a buttercup. :) Was cold and windy today tho, I wouldn't have opened up either.
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You might mention to the Kildeer family that it would be wise to stay there for another month or so. Their nesting material is under 3 feet of snow here. :(
 

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