So we're about 7 or so feet below normal snow fall. Our ice is gone off the creek. The lake has broken up and is gone a month ahead of time. My lawn for all practical purposes is bare. The only reason I have any snow and piles is because of the fact I'm in the trees. My brother down the hill in the open is bare. Saturday I was up on the Tug Hill Plateau. Still have 2 or 3 feet everywhere up there. It's 20 minutes from the house. But my winter is done... gone... kapput. Wierd.
Yeah I have one even more strange. 8:00am today, we walk outside and quarter sized flakes are coming down hard. Not sticking but, coming down strong. We take our son to preschool which is about 2 miles away and we get about 600 feet out of the driveway and the snow stops. We get to his school and it is clear blue skies and rays of sunshine everywhere. Weird!!!
Really weird. I have the golf course in mid season shape ready to go. Everything picked up, cleaned up, all the tee markers, ballwashers, benches, ropes and stakes, etc... out. I could open whenever I feel like it. Been hitting golf balls regularly all winter. Supposed to be low 60's for a couple days this week. I just hope we dont pay for it with a rainy summer
We better get some rain. The creeks are low and our hatchery could have a catastropic failure if the water levels drop much more. There isn't going to be the run off we normally have. We need rain on a regular basis for the next 3 months. We're old school. No electricity or pumps. We're gravity feed with valves to control flow. We only had a foot and a few inches of head left above our inlet lines this morning. We got 50,000 little fish starting to hatch by the hundreds every day. When they start growing we'll need water and oxygen.
Yep I'm already freaking out about my irrigation pond levels for the summer. They get dangerously low on average years. Lack of snow/meltoff and it already looks REALLY low.
