Sweet Home Alabama

[cedarranch]

I have enjoyed everyones pics on this board so I thought I would do a little show and tell as my kids say.
http://cedarranch.home.mindspring.com/index.html
I don't have all my pics up yet but it is a start!
Going to add a carport over this long weekend. Hope to add some pics of that soon. In December we hope to put up a pole barn to store the implements in.

 

[TerryinMD]

cedarranch,

Nice property. The pictures of the creeks are great. You must be in the northeastern corner of the state.

Terry

 

[cedarranch]

I would call it north central (maybe).
The pic will explain.

 

[TerryinMD]

Ok.

I've been through the northeasthern corner of the state and worked some in the the Huntsville area.

The snow threw me off. I happened to be in Huntsville when 12" of snow during the March Blizzard and it shut down the area for a couple of days. Totally amazed me!! I think it was in '94 or '95.

Terry

 

[njrqs]

Love those snow pics.

Snow is a mystery to me. Never seen the stuff. Looks great.

Does it kill the grass after a while. Then you'd just end up with mud ?????

<font color=blue>Neil from OZ.</font color=blue>

 

[MDNick]

Neil,

Snow is pretty Cool./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
No, the grass pretty much just goes dormant. What can kill the grass is cold weather without snow. Several years ago, when I was in school in Ohio I used to shovel a path through the front yard to the driveway to get to the school bus. It was down around zero F pretty much straight for about a month. I kept the same path shoveled free of snow, only about 18" wide. Come spring there was an OBVIOUS dead 18" wide patch of grass from the front porch all the way across the front yard to the driveway. The snow elswhere insulated the grass from the perpetual bitter cold. I thought it was neat. Dad did not think so./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Here in southern MD, I am hoping for a hum dinger of a winter. I want to plow snow. I am jealous of those further north. Esmerelda and her backblade are just itching for the white stuff to push around. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Farmer kid usetabe, Farmer Wannabe

 

[njrqs]

I would have thought the grass would die without the sun on it.

But as you say, it must just go dormant and nothing can hurt it (except the cold as you say)

Yes I am ordering a back blade today, but I think snow would be much more fun to push around than the rocks and junk I have here.

Don't think I'd handle the cold although I have been camping in 5 degress below (celcius) and we did see ice on the windscreen !!

<font color=blue>Neil from OZ.</font color=blue>

 

[cedarranch]

We don't get much snow in Alabama, but this place is on a mountain (Canon Mountain) so while most of the state just gets a dusting and little or no accumilation, we get 2 or 3 inches. About 5 miles down the road you get to the bottom of the mountain and you would have no snow. Our dogwood trees even bloom about a month later than the surrounding area.