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March 4, 2010
We get a little bit of thaw and then winter returns
with a vengeance. A four-day snowstorm began on Thursday and snow
continued to fall until Sunday morning. The accumulation of snow in our
yard measured 16 inches.
Our little dog Shiloh stands about nine inches tall
and taking him out for walks was, at least for us, a comical excursion.
He did manage to get through the great white, though mostly by jumping
from spot to spot with just his head sticking out above the snow.
Weather for this weekend is forecast to be partly
sunny, warmer, with little or no precipitation, if you can believe it.
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What has been an extremely inconvenient winter for
all of us has been a complete disaster for the woodland animals:
beginning with a very poor harvest of nuts last fall to months of
snow-covered ground, where even winter grass has been almost impossible
to find. The deer seem to be a bit scrawny and what few squirrels I have
seen were out on the end of limbs, precariously perched, eating the buds
of leaves yet to be.
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On Monday, Mar. 1, 1997, there was severe flooding
in the southern end of Calhoun County. If we are lucky, all of the snow
we have received will simply melt away without being melted by a few
days of rain.
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