Posted on 11/30/2021 7:30:54 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
But not as bad as 1976 when we had ICE.
Stuck in a bar for three days. Tough break!
I live in Iowa County in SW Wisconsin. The glaciers missed us. You want to see HILLS? LOL! My VW Golf never goes anywhere in the winter months - she can't make it up the hill to my farm, plowed or not. We also joke that after you've lived here for a while, one leg is shorter than the other from walking on hillsides all the time and even when you're walking DOWNHILL, you're still going UPHILL! ;)
Typical farm layout around here. Kind of makes you dizzy when you look at it for a while, LOL!
Nice pic! Go 4Motion next time, AWD German cars are typically quite capable. As long as you don’t high center them, with the level of snow you get.
I drive my Ford Escape in the winter months. Looking to upgrade to my ‘forever car’ but, well, not much out there to buy these days! :(
Let’s Go, Brandon!
We did all of that, too! Easily 6 days for us, too.
Dad got out the charcoal grill and grilled up a bunch of stuff that wouldn’t keep.
Sis & I pretended we were living ‘Little House on the Prairie’ but I wouldn’t trade living through one of their horrific winters for ours, that’s for sure! ;)
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LOL! Love it! :)
Wow, that is crazy farming! What’s with the two different greens in the fields?
In my genealogy research, I learned my gr-gr-grandfather and family lived NINE years in a sod house on the Saskatchewan prairie in the 1860s and 1870s. I can’t even imagine.
[More than 60 people found themselves stranded at the Tan Hill Inn, a pub and inn located in a remote portion of Northern England, after Storm Arwen unleashed brutal blizzard conditions across the region.]
All they need is a zombie outbreak and they’ve got a sequel to “Shaun of the Dead.”
"Winter is coming, pour me a nice dark porter."
Yeah, like Gage, NM when they closed down I-10 for two days due to snow and ice. (me, ca. 1988)
The local radio station played some of one of the popular Noasis songs and it was horrible! The DJs were having fun mocking it as if they were playing the whole time people were snowed in. It was pretty funny.
And I do like Oasis fwiw.
If the buildings were smaller I’d say that looks like The Shire from LOTR.
Rumor has it that he left Birmingham, England, traveled to Iowa County, Wisconsin and was THEN inspired for his LOTR novels. (j/k)
Erosion is a HUGE problem here, due to all the hills, so crops are inter-planted like this to help prevent that. The darker green is feed/seed corn and the lighter is either soybean or alfalfa. Sometimes Wheat or Rye or Oats are planted, too. It’s really quite pretty.
Pretty much everything around here is for dairy and beef cattle to eat and or use for winter bedding.
Before Beau bought our current farm, (1983; the ‘farm’ has been here since 1900) these ‘practices’ were not always in place, so if I need really ‘good’ dirt, Beau will bring some up from the pasture below us. That is some AWESOME stuff, as everything GOOD about the soil ended up down there back then and it’s never grown anything other that grass and wildflowers.
The Palouse in eastern Washington and western Idaho has long rolling hills like that (not quite as steep as yours) used mainly to grow wheat, but vineyards are now popular totaling over 800 in 2015.
The Palouse hills are steep enough to cause traversing farm equipment to tip over. Leveling combines were invented in 1891 to solve that problem, but they had to be manually adjusted which was hard work. Self-leveling combines were invented 50 years later.
Planted winter wheat... 
A few months later...
That must have been so fun, once they accepted their fate! Like a dorm party.
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