Snow/Spiteful tree-cutting

We finally got some snow. Maybe four inches total in town. The first few snows Wednesday and Thursday melted in pretty quick and then Friday night through Sunday morning we got a couple inches to stick around a while. And if we got that much here, you can bet it was dumping up in the mountains. As of Saturday night, Silverton Mountain reported 46 inches of new snow. Probably they’ll add to that throughout Sunday. This may not end the drought, but it sure does help a bit after the driest winter on record in our area.

The snow sure is keeping me from some garden tasks I had outlined for the weekend. Bought 20 strawberry plants for about $5 and was hoping to get them in the ground. What I did accomplish before it started dumping on Saturday was to spade up a 4 x 20 foot area and spread some composted chicken manure pellets. I checked this morning, and all those pellets had sort of melted into the soil, so when I next gather some rocks to raise the bed a little and then add in some bone meal, it ought to mix up rather nicely.

I mentioned that we’d be taking a little trip back in time today. Well, here is a shot from about ten years ago I’m guessing (1996). This is a shot of our neighbor Twana and her family at her niece’s high school graduation. You can’t see 415 Bunker so well, but it’s there behind the truck and the giant, leafy, green trees. It’ll be a while before our trees get anywhere near this size, maybe never considering we bought semi-dwarf trees. Twana says that the folks living in 415 at the time came out and told them, “Don’t park in our shade.” Then she said that within a week, these trees were cut down. I’d call that spiteful tree-cutting. Come on people, share the shade! There’s enough to go around!