Raising livestock on pasture means lots of walking for me tending the animals. They need to be fed, they need to be watered, they need to be moved from one paddock to another. That can be a problem this time of year when the ground is covered with snow and ice. Especially ice. We get […]
What the weather man is calling “a hard-hitting nor’easter” passed through the Albany area last night, dumping a foot or more of snow in some places. Here in Washington County, however, we are situated in what is known as a “snow shadow.” I don’t think we got more than three inches. Still, besides the regular […]
We are preparing to get slammed with another blast of snow, sleet, freezing rain. But we are also celebrating the installation of new storm doors as temperatures are forecast to plunge near O degrees Fahrenheit. That’s minus 17.7 degrees Celsius for our European friends. We are stockpiling firewood like mad. Never have we been so […]
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