With our heavy snowfalls this winter we’ve seen some marvelous sights in the ways it accumulates. I took a few pictures.
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Mooschief
“I don’t feel like working today. Maybe I’ll write a blog post about moose and snow.”
Rose says “I think you might have done that one already.”
“Well, how about one on snow and moose?”
“That’s really turning it on its head.”
Anyway, stop reading now if you think you’ve heard this before.
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The Quasimodo Pile Goes Down—Son of a Birch!
I’ve been taking advantage of our cold weather to split the most ugly, cantankerous, gnarly, and twisted pieces of wood that you can imagine.
Boy, have there been some tough ones. I wrote about the glory of winning in battle over these mean, twisted, miserable chunks of firewood last winter. It’s still one of the truly wonderful parts of our -30 to -40 F cold snaps. The added brittleness of the wood usually makes these stubborn pieces of firewood split fairly easily.
But this year I have one tree that is just killing me. Every damned piece of this thing has been a fight.
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Breaking Trail
We had a good dump of snow last week on top of rain (it should not rain here in January). Behind that weather system came normal cold—cold that felt abnormal because it’s been so warm this season.
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Rudolph Tamales
Rudolph occasionally stops by our house, and we enjoy our time with him. I didn’t want to post this on Christmas, because some might consider it in bad taste, but this year’s visit was particularly memorable.
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