It's snowing today. Supposed to get 2 inches or so. I guess winter is officially here. This is rather early for us. We usually get our first snows of the season around Thanksgiving Day. The long range forecast calls for temperatures to dip down into single digits at night for at least the next week or so - as low as 4 degrees. So this snow will stick around for a while. We really didn't get a chance to winterize the yard yet, or tarp things down. We had lots of rain, and working with tarps in the rain is no fun. We didn't get a chance to get our bees squared away better for winter, either. We had hoped to combine a couple of the hives into one winter hive box, but it was too rainy and cold to do that. A person kills bees if you work with them during weather that is too cold. Hopefully we can still get some hay bales around the hives before the below zero stuff gets here. It was a very rainy fall. The farmers around here had a tough time getting crops in because of muddy fields. In fact, Harold is still not finished with sugar beet hauling. They had hoped to finish today, but that's not going to happen. They hope to finish tomorrow if it stops snowing.
Well, we knew winter was coming............................
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| The snow is piling up quickly on our driveway. |
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| The back yard looks pretty bleak. |
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| We got snow during the night, and a fresh layer is settling down on our vehicles. |
2 comments:
Your snowy pictures are beautiful! I love the snow. But I know it is difficult to drive in.
I hope all goes well with the bees!
God bless!
Thank you Mrs. White! So far our bees are still alive in the hives. We hope they will make it until spring. We have more snow than what is pictured here, but we are used to it. I love the snow in December and early January, but by March the snow becomes quite bothersome. By then, we are more than ready for spring. At least by March we are busy making maple syrup and that gives us something else to think about besides being tired of the snow!
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