Snow and rain to Mud!

[devildog1]

Hey all hope everyone had a grand ole Thanksgiving and getting ready for the Christmas season. Just checking in from the Great northeast,( upstate new York) that is. We have had a few couple inches of snow at different times and one plow able, 8" snow fall. In between everything is mud, mud every where, can't go off paved drive with tractor without causing landscaping work in the spring, yep I did that. Have to put on muck boots just to walk the dogs, boots on boots off, mud and more mud everywhere. Ok now that I got that out of the way I do feel a bit better, ha until I have to put the boots on to go into the mud again! The local farmers can't get into their fields to finish harvesting, one has 500 acres of corn and another has 1,500 acres of soy beans, sorry for them as it looks like a wasted crop. At least the critters will benefit.
Devil Dog

 

[EddieWalker]

Sounds like a lot of misery to me. We get snow about every other year and after the first hour or so of admiring it, I hate it. The worse part is waiting for it to go away and the ground to dry out. Seems to take forever!!!!

 

[George2615]

I've always said we have 6 season here. Mud, spring, summer, fall, mud, winter. Currently in mud season.

 

[Amvcane]

I feel for you. I had to put off some projects till next year. Property to soft since late spring.
Thankful the seasons weren’t Fire..Rain...Mudslide.

 

[LouNY]

Well looking at the forecast today it may start to freezeup tomorrow evening that will help to tighten things up.
Interesting name tag there devildog1.
:drink:

 

[CobyRupert]

Yep, we're back to mud season with this weekend's rain after a flirt with winter and single digits temps the last couple weeks.

I should of went skiing Saturday before that rain came Sunday.

We drove over to Vermont Country Store in Weston VT yesterday. It looked like a winter wonderland over there. They got a lot of snow last week. Though that 1800' elevation makes a difference. Lots of utility crews were out on Sunday still fixing lines.

 

[jbrumberg]

I am in a similar situation here in Western MA. I believe that this is the wettest Autumn on record for MA. My subsurface springs on my property are still openly flowing surface water. -3F did not even freeze them. I had planned to rotary cut my lower open 6A's this Fall; but decided not to- at best, my R-1's would just rut the field up and at worse sink. My tractor this year has spent almost all of its time on the "driveway" moving wood.

19" of snow accumulation this Season. I still have a compacted 5"-8" snowpack despite the recent >32F daytime temperatures. My property is ~1400' on average.

 

[LouNY]

Yep, we're back to mud season with this weekend's rain after a flirt with winter and single digits that last couple weeks.

I should of went skiing Saturday before that rain came Sunday.

We drove over to Vermont Country Store in Weston VT yesterday. It looked like a winter wonderland over there. They got a lot of snow last week. Though that 1800' elevation makes a difference. Lots of utility crews were out on Sunday still fixing lines.

That is quite the store over there my wife really likes it, I enjoy wandering thru every couple of years.
I like going in the summer on the bike.

 

[Thomas]

Same condition here ground not frozen under snow and its been wet fall,some loggers even had to stop pulling trees.

 

[Oaktree]

Sounds like a lot of misery to me. We get snow about every other year and after the first hour or so of admiring it, I hate it. The worse part is waiting for it to go away and the ground to dry out. Seems to take forever!!!!

Each to their own. To me the heat & humidity of the south would be miserable. You just find "winter" things to do like snowmobiling, snowshoeing, skiing, etc. when you live here. I can't think of a place I'd rather live than New England. At least we don't get the extreme life-threatening weather other parts of the country get. I'll take snow over tornadoes or wildfires any day of the week.