Summer's Over, and the Icky Work Is Almost Done

[slowp]

Summer's over. The blizzard of October, up high, hit today. I must confess, I just bundled up a bit, hiked a very little ways, saw that the guys did the most important thing right, then ran out and vortecked out of there. I'm hoping the snow will melt this week, and I can go check the other stuff without thinking about the Donner Party. The logging is done here, time for the stuff everybody hates, cleanup--mainly hand piling.

Here's a picture of the horizontal snow.

We are still having winds. A sad note, a mushroom hunter was killed when a tree came down on his van as they were heading out to the woods today.

 

[Jacob J.]

Looks about the same here, except we're getting a bit more snow. Sorry to hear about the mushroom guy, just goes to show that anything can happen at anytime...

 

[bullbuck]

handpiling in the snow,boy that sounds like fun

 

[Humptulips]

Yea but where are the elk?

 

[slowp]

Yea but where are the elk?

In Packwood.

 

[Gologit]

In Packwood.

In the freezer? Cut and wrapped?

 

[2dogs]

We had a rainy and windy storm come through here yesterday. It is the biggest October storm in 47 years according to the weather guy. Trees down everywhere and some loss of power. 10" of rain fell in the mountains a few miles from here! No major mudslides reported thank goodness.

BTW my male dog hated it. He loathes getting wet. The ##### frollicked in the rain.

Ha! The censoring software edited out the word for female dog.

 

[Gologit]

We had a rainy and windy storm come through here yesterday. It is the biggest October storm in 47 years according to the weather guy. Trees down everywhere and some loss of power. 10" of rain fell in the mountains a few miles from here! No major mudslides reported thank goodness.

BTW my male dog hated it. He loathes getting wet. The ##### frollicked in the rain.

Ha! The censoring software edited out the word for female dog.

Try typing b-i-t-c-h. I'll probably get in trouble for this.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Lotta stuff blown down her yesterday. The Elk are chirping in the back yard this morning.

 

[2dogs]

Try typing b-i-t-c-h. I'll probably get in trouble for this.

I'm already on probation for trying to type a swear word. Thanks anyway.

 

[restoman]

I'd trade you that weather for ours. Just as much precipitation just not frozen. It's warm enough too that my buddies are stuck to my inner thigh. Have fun up there.

 

[Gologit]

I'd trade you that weather for ours. Just as much precipitation just not frozen. It's warm enough too that my buddies are stuck to my inner thigh. Have fun up there.

LOL...No trade. I spent some time in your part of the country, Plaquemines Parish and out around Houma, as well as wintering in New Orleans. It's great country, great food, and great people...but your weather just absolutely sucks.

 

[willis09r]

Slowp can you keep the pictures coming please! Thanks

 

[RRSsawshop]

They are calling for rain/snow here tonight,tomorrow,friday.. Let it come at least it not HUMID any more..

 

[slowp]

You know, that show called Northern Exposure with the moose walking down the road? Well, change the moose to several elk, the road to a highway, add recently moved in residents who like to feed them, and you have the Packwood Elk Herd. The elk like to browse on the gardens, shrubs and trees. Since it is also a no shooting area, they have it good there. So, Packwood is my answer to "Where are the elk?" That elk population got a deputy sheriff killed a couple months ago when he was responding to a call and slammed into one. The elk died too. The clearcuts have reforested so there isn't such good browse and no new clearcutting is going on, so the elk hang out in the valley all year now. They used to move up higher in the summer.

I think some bow hunting is allowed, because I know someone who killed an elk in his yard that way, legally. A cow elk had chased his wife out of their yard last year, causing his wife to break a foot while leaping over a flower planter and landing hard on concrete.

Today, I returned to the same area. The wind was blowing the same but it was horizontal rain so I walked on in. Yup, the guys got their cleanup done.

The Used Dog is a little nervous because it sounds like a neighbor is sighting in his elk cannon.

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

We had our snow the last day of September and the first day of October, then we had ice yesterday and some drizzly rain since.

As for elk, we have the Foster herd 'round here. We also have deer that think that they are birds. My dad took a picture just as I was pulling in the driveway...

Bird feeders now relocated to a fenced area...


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