Buy your flood insurance now, It takes 30 days to take effect.

Here is where the snow depth is at.

I was out snowshoeing today and was surprised to see the moose moving through it. It takes a lot of snow to shut them down but they must have depleted the browse where they were and decided to move on to better grounds. Hard to tell from the pic but that's three feet of snow they waded through.

cohunt I spent Thursday night in Sioux Falls. I knew it was going to be a long day and left a little after 0600 headed south then west. I was sure glad when it got light. That was a mess. I ended up getting into Bismarck at 10:30 PM and spent the night there rather than pushing the last 140 miles home. Roads were bad all the way across SD. I went west then North then west and north again. I did 1180+ miles between Thursday and Friday. That was enough of that fun too.

With the drifting and traffic and low temps the roads just do not open up. South Dakota does not use road salt (up here anyway) and unless there is bright sun and at least mid teens the ice/compressed snow just builds.

It is amazing the snow they can travel in. I see tracks and beds where they have been at the ranch but I haven't seen them lately.

More than ready. I've got the gardening bug already. I want to wait until it's a little warmer to start my seeds so I've just been looking at gardening sites lately. Wife says if she catches me looking at tomatoes one more time she's about to get mad.

Same here finally got the last of the bamboo cleared off the back of my garden spot. Got enough bean poles to last me a while. Unfortunately with all this rain looks like I'd be better off raising crawfish than beans.

Yeah, I've seen winters where they move about quite freely, even in deep snow. This year they really shut down. They tend to hang in areas of dark growth to bed and keep out of the wind. I've been wanting to get out shed hunting but we've had so much snow it would probably be pointless. Everything is buried.

Sap season is just around the corner. We have several hundred buckets out and lots of tubs but we can't get our 6 wheeler through in many places so we will need some warm weather to settle down some snow or rain or both.
I am late with ordering the garden seeds but with a couple cold days I can get that done.
Bryce

Nope. I don't care if spring never comes again !

Hopefully it starts warming up now

Has been 55 days now haven't been above 32 degrees above zero, maybe this weekend may get up into twenties, if sun shining will be like summer!

Looks deep in the mountains snowy

Car had negative 20 when I left work yesterday morning. Think it hit about 6 throughout the day. I don't mind the cold but the snow has been on since late November. I've seen the ground a couple times since then, but it sure didn't last long. Worst conditions I've seen trapping wise ever....I took the option to stop very early on in the season and just work. I think I've made the right choice. I've got boxes of traps sitting in my shed I can't talk myself into opening. Working at $60 an hour is beating any extra income I could make on trapping right now. At some point you have to feed the kids and pay the electricity bill. I'm over the winter for sure and I absolutely dread summer.

I'm thinking about selling canoes this spring. When the snow melts there will be people buying anything that floats. Last report I heard out of Duluth we were at 80+ inches of snow.

I love the changing of the seasons. September, December and March.....especially March gets be anxious for the next season to begin.

VERY ready. I've used the snowblower 6 days out of the last 7. And that was just to clean up from the blowing and drifting from last Mondays blizzard. Walked around the yard with a measuring stick. 36" in most spots, 4' in a couple. And those aren't "drifty" areas, drifts are up over 5'. Had snow on the ground since Nov 10. Probably still have it until the middle of May. And is -12 here this morning.

4 degrees here now. Walleye run should start this month out of lake erie and up the rivers. Im ready!!!

I keep saying "hopefully this is the week"