Oh this is nothing really. This is just what we got this morning. A few weeks ago we had snow constantly and thought it was finally over with. Fools.
This (and it was merely ankle deep when I took the picture, a lot more was dumped until about an hour ago) is our typical snow fall. We're used to massive quantities of snow being dumped at inopportune times (like the one day I took off so I could go to garage sales and sell my own stuff at a friend's sale). Not as much in the past few years as it used to be.
We have this weird valley thing going on so everything usually gets dumped before it reaches us so we get all of the 30 below bitter cold and very little of the wet snow. Most snow we get is really dry and blows around like sand and piles waist deep. Kind of like those Discovery specials on Antarctica. And useless for making snowmen. All our wet snow usually comes March-July. Usually our biggest hits right on spring break in March so all the people who went away come back from their luxury Caribbean cruises with tans and wonder why the rest of us are so pale and cranky.
We've had almost constant rain the past week (and more forecast for the coming week) and the snow only happened because it finally got cold enough last night. Now it's raining. Again. Which is good. Keeps the snowpack together and us away from a summer drought.
I love the 72 day growing season here. I hope it starts soon.
And I swear, if the lilacs are damaged I will be pissed. Last year we got a late nasty frost that killed the buds so nothing bloomed. They had all just hit full bloom this time.
And my vegetable garden had just sprouted. I was really hoping for some squash this year.
It could be worse though. It could be Kemmerer.
