Fairbanks snowmageddon
 

This is what we've had since just before Christmas. We got 12" in one day. In the first pic you can just see the tip of a 12" ruler sticking out of the snow. For a while all I did was plow snow off my pad, once in the middle of the night between 1 and 3am, then again in the afternoon. Once it quit falling it was shoveling/scooping/plowing snow all day just to get the pad clear. The roads didn't get plowed out for a long time. Oh, and on the 26th it poured rain all day at 23-25deg and iced EVERYTHING over; all the roads are still based with 2" of glare ice. And we've not had any mail delivery in 12days now. I am keeping one adult male ruffie regularly and well fed in my lower yard. Pics were taken on the 29th. The fourth pic was taken yesterday. The last pic is just now and of keeping the "family" fed. All they want this time of year is Pnut butter. They haven't touched a sunflower seed in over a month.

I guess you have to be totally self-reliant if you want to live in the outback.





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But, but, but isn't it a light, fluffy, dry snow??? :shock:

The last 12" was; under that is a 2" thk solid ice layer over wet hvy snow. You can only plow that bottom stuff once then it sets up like concrete.

Keep feedin', and eatin', that peanut butter, Richard. I grow the peanuts, you feed 'em. I think that's a good system.

Any particular brand your birds prefer .......... Jim, Peter Pan ???

I give them JIF creamy style. It comes in 2 jar packs of 3# per jar at Costco. They go through 6-9 lbs/year.

they know what good peanut butter is....charlie

Richard how many cords of wood do you burn in the winter, or do you heat with some other source? Gary

We are having a cold storm front here this weekend. Hopefully it will bring some woodcock this way.

There is something about the humidity in this place that makes any kind of weather uncomfortable

Gary, I have a Monitor diesel fired heater in the basement and a woodstove on the middle floor. I only go through maybe 3 cords/yr at most.