The weather has been all over the place!
Cold.
Snow.
VERY cold.
Warm-ish.
Cold.
And Work: intense-ish.
Christmas Prep: no sweets :( BUT, lots of crackers to go with cheese to go with smoked salmon – YEA!
Meanwhile…
A morning march in the no snow zone.
Beardog point.
Back ends.
We’ve had snow and cold: cold as in an almost constant temp of 10F give or take a few degrees. The snow has been coming in small bits: 1-2-3 inches at a time. And being so cold, the snow is light and powdery so settles into less with a little time. Currently, there is about 8 inches of settled, powdery snow in the woods.
Bear is loving it!
Waiting to go for a walk…
… and waiting…
… and waiting for me to catch up!
Less than a week ago I was sort of complaining about our slow start to winter.
The next day we had just short of four inches of snow and cold temperatures and away we go with Winter in Northwest Montana!
This morning:
We woke to a new four inches of snow and it was still snowing.
It has been cold.
Not SUPER cold, but below freezing and nights near zero with daytime temps in the teens.
This is round 1 in what NOAA advertises as a “Prolonged Snow Event”.
Hee.
The snow stopped about 10:00 a.m.
I cleared about 3/4 of the drive and turn around.
Temps warmed to a balmy 19F!!!
There is enough snow to break out the short ‘shoes and start making tracks on the game trails.
HOO RAH!
A little over three inches of new snow to start the week.
Post snow throwing selfie: me and the thrower after a bit of clearing. SO. MUCH. FUN!
Wintry weather has been mostly a tease of light flurries and not very cold temperatures. Although, it has been colder on the valley floor, at my house we’ve had maybe 3 nights in the 20’s but otherwise no hard freezing. The ground is not frozen so when it does flurry, it melts right away.
But…
Yes.
Winter weather in the forecast.
Snow and cold. Very cold.
I am hope, hope hoping to soon have enough snow to snowshoe in the woods.
The snow started.
But at the moment, it is still above freezing at 35F.
And then it stopped snowing so we all went out to see what we could see.
Auggie found a critter hole on Beardog hill.
After some time peering into the hole, he retreated to a perch to keep an eye on the front door.
Then some “help” from Bear…
Oh, well.