Rolling Dog Farm Blog

To give you an idea of how much snow we've had, I took this photo this afternoon of one of the igloos in the dog yards.  As you can see, it is entirely covered, the access hole completely sealed.  Although this part of New Hampshire is definitely snow country, people keep telling us that this winter is very unusual for how much snow has piled up.  It's been many years since they've seen this much.  Here in the "North Country," as it's called, they get quite a bit of snow, but much of it melts off during warm spells, so you get a break between snowstorms and the snow depth can drop a lot throughout the winter.  This winter not only have there been back to back snowstorms, but we haven't had the typical warm spells … so the snow just keeps mounting.  Some folks we know have suggested that perhaps we, um, brought a little of Montana with us to the North Country this winter.

Back in Ovando, our friends Tim and Cindy J., who are looking after the ranch for us while it's on the market, tell us they've had record snows there this winter as well.  Tim was taking his skidsteer over to the ranch this morning to begin moving snow away from the house; although the snow is nicely sliding off the metal roof, it's begun to pile up so high next to the walls that it's time to move it away.  To put that in perspective, in 10 years in Ovando, we never had to move snow away from the walls.  For us, that's a lot of snow.  Tim says he's been running out of room to put snow when he plows, which is the problem we've had here, too.

There was an interesting story in the New York Times a couple of days ago — Winter's Punch Crumbles Roofs in New England — that kind of summed up the challenges of this winter across the region. 

Spring, anyone?

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