Beautiful snow

[journey11]

Beautiful pics! You got just a little bit more than we did, but ours clung to the trees too. I love it when it does that! (Well, except when it's too much and pulls down power lines... )

 

[Nyboy]

Frist photo is breathtaking!! We got 2 inches then it rained and then deep freeze, so we have 2inches of ice.

 

[catjac1975]

Thanks!!!

 

[Southern Gardener]

Very pretty! I love the first picture!

 

[HunkieDorie23]

Yeah I am loving the snow a little. We didn't get any last year and it is nice for a little while. It is snowing again today we are getting another inch or two. Our old wives tales is... "What ever day you had your first snow fall is the number of "Snow falls" you will get for the year". It snowed for the first time this year on Oct 31. Doesn't really matter how many we will actually get but when it sticks to the ground here in Oct you are going to end up with a lot of snow for the winter.

 

[Smart Red]

Our old wives tales is... "What ever day you had your first snow fall is the number of "Snow falls" you will get for the year". It snowed for the first time this year on Oct 31.

According to a Native American named Ties - who once livied in a nearby town - he could predict the number of snowfalls this way.

Add the day of the first (cat tracking) snowfall to the number of days since the last new moon to get the number of snowfalls for that year.

According to the paper, our first snow fell on December 9 and the last new moon was November 13. That's 27 days from Nov. 13 to Dec. 9, plus 9 = 36 snows for the 2012
- 2013 winter season.

According to 'MY' figger'n, we while we got the Dec. 9th snow, we didn't get enough snow to track a cat here until Dec. 19th. The new moon was Dec. 13th. That's 6 days plus 19 or 25 snows for this year.

According to DH, we will get around 30 snowfalls every winter regardless of old wives tales or legends.

I wish I remembered what last year called for. Had to have been way off? This year I'm keeping track.

Love, Smart Red

 

[catjac1975]

I never heard the cat tracking term before-very cool!
I spent the day removing ice and snow from the tunnel greenhouse and my ribbon wire fencing. It did not get warm enough to even melt the snow from the fencing so it was hanging to the ground. When I finally finished I let my horses out of their smaller corral into their larger pasture. They ran like foals. Even horses love to play in the snow. They each had had a race on the tracks in their youth. They looked like they were racing!I guess I am still a kid at heart-I love the snow! Not so much the very cold!

 

[thistlebloom]

Great picture of your horses Cat!

 

[digitS']

. . . According to the paper, our first snow fell on December 9 and the last new moon was November 13. That's 27 days from Nov. 13 to Dec. 9, plus 9 = 36 snows for the 2012
- 2013 winter season.

According to 'MY' figger'n, we while we got the Dec. 9th snow, we didn't get enough snow to track a cat here until Dec. 19th. The new moon was Dec. 13th. That's 6 days plus 19 or 25 snows for this year.

According to DH, we will get around 30 snowfalls every winter regardless of old wives tales or legends. . . .

Wow! I can't come up with anything! Maybe if'n I studied it for an hour . . . but, it cannot be true here, Linn. So, I may as well give 'er up!

I doubt if we have 30 snows any winter but an October snow isn't too uncommon. There for awhile, the first good snowfall came, usually & unfortunately, on Halloween. Snow in September isn't at all, unheard of. I don't know how many we've had this year but some are real, real light.

October snow? I once had a field of oats at a higher elevation and the harvest was going to change everything for me. It was my field but the neighbor was the guy with the combine. I was just a guy who ran them for other neighbors. Anyway, I got the field planted late and it wasn't ready to harvest until about the 1st week of October. It snowed but melted, it snowed again and melted, then it snowed a 3rd time - all in October. Of course the field was lost. The oats became feed for the elk.

I didn't leave the farm that winter to go back to college. My girl friend - back in the college town a 100 miles away - was none too happy with my decision to go to work at a local feed store that winter :/. Our relationship fizzled out . . . It was about 5 more years before I got back to school. She was elsewhere by then and, I was too.

Steve

 

[skeeter9]

Beautiful snow pics! We are still waiting for our first snow of the year.