We got SNOW

Texas Ranger · February 26, 2003, 02:37:44 PM

Less, winter here in Texas, too. Hear there is some snow some 600 miles from here, and ice and sleet about 150 miles from here. We got cold temperature, 40's, and rain. Durn winter is never going to end! ;D

Mark M · February 26, 2003, 04:33:42 PM

Hi Fabiola

Welcome to the group, maybe you could post some pictures from carnaval?

Some day I would like to visit Rio 8)

Mark
Bismarck, ND

Don P · February 26, 2003, 06:34:48 PM

Welcome Fabiola,
Everything is relative Mark, I was freezing my tail off working in South Dakota one winter when I met a Canuckian who came to see what it was like "down south" :

Brazil sounds OK about now, our schoolkids just missed their 17th day of the winter today. Still coming down, they'll miss tomorrow too.

Fabiola · February 27, 2003, 08:09:07 AM

About Carnaval, here in Rio hadnt started yet. In Bahia, another state, it is alway Carnaval. And I am going there tomorrow.
So after that I can send some pictures, dont worry. I alread had promess some pictures from Brazilian Forestries. I will get some from the biggest urban forestry in the world that is here in Rio. Tijuca Forestry.
I hope nobody will freeze untill there.

Jeff · February 27, 2003, 09:08:51 AM

Forget it Mark, Fabiola and I are instant message buddies. YOU AINT getting the kind of pics you are hoping for on this forum. :D

Fabiola · February 27, 2003, 11:59:42 AM

Yes! Jeff is right! Sorry Mark but we have different kind of interesting. My pictures from Carnaval wont make you happy. I will send some generals ones.
Remenber we are talking about snow!!!!!!!!

Jeff · February 27, 2003, 12:36:41 PM

Aint it funny it took snow to bring out the Brazilians.

Actually Fabiola has been a member of the forum quite a long time. I think she has just been waiting her chance to dive in. Tobad thw water's froze. ;D
Date Registered: Nov 12th, 2001, 3:52pm

We have exchanged several messages in the past and it took me this long to make excuses for most of you. 8)

I'll say welcome anyway Fabiola even though you are a long time forum member. Even though you may not realize it, you have an immense amount of knowledge that you can add to the board.

Fabiola · February 27, 2003, 12:44:41 PM

Yes! I had so terrible experience with snow that I couldnt resist of joining to conversation.
I realy fell much more prepered to talk about Forestry than when I first sign in.

Tom · February 27, 2003, 03:20:16 PM

Keep it up and you'll be sound'n just like these "Good-ol'-Boys" before long. :D

Bibbyman · February 27, 2003, 06:55:43 PM

I've got a friend that lives in Sao Paulo and is a professor at the University of Sao Paulo. (Yea! Really I do!) She has been to the USA a good many times on business trips but always in some big city.

She came to Madison, Wisconsin one early spring to attend a conference there. Mary and I went up to visit with her there. We took her out the Mary's aunt's dairy farm where they also run a bed and breakfast.

As we were driving out, the temperature started to drop below freezing. We had a thermometer in our car and Rosa kept taking pictures of it. When we got to the farm, it started to snow. Rosa was nearly in a panic. She had never experienced snow and was almost afraid to get out the car. It only dusted the ground and didn't last long but it was a big deal for her.

I'll see if I can find one of the pictures.

Welcome to the Forum Fabiola.

Fabiola · February 27, 2003, 10:54:32 PM

Pictures of snow? No, thanks!!! I had enough at Halifax!
Everybody used to make jokes of me about the snow. I remember I got at my english scholl crying one day and my teacher came so nice and said "dont cry baby!" I felt so good and I said "you are right I shouldnt cry", and he said back "right, because it can frozee on your face!!!!!" I came back 2 weeks latter!
God bless Rio and its 45 celcios degree now! 4 am....

Bibbyman · February 27, 2003, 11:55:56 PM

No! Pictures of my amiga Rosa visiting with us in Wisconsin.

I know people will believe it snowed in Wisconsin, I didn't think people would believe I'd have a friend in São Paulo, Brasil. :

Fabiola · February 28, 2003, 03:35:23 AM

They are just jealous because you are International! Think about me now I am at the University where I graduated and it is the middle of nowhere and I am talking to you in... Where are you?

ARKANSAWYER · February 28, 2003, 04:20:09 AM

  DanG it Jeff we were trying to warm it up a bit and melt this snow. You are not helping much. :(
  We got a good sleeting yesterday morning and not the temps are around 30 degrees and there is a fog so thick you could drink it. I remember in Alaska at about -30 we would get a ice fog like this and in the day light it would look like glitter floating in the air. I like this better.
  Another chance for snow tomorrow. I would shoot the ground hawg if he could get his head above the snow.
   Fabiola, I guess a be-lated welcome and I have no international friends but I do send e-mail to some Yankee's and a few others.
ARKANSAWYER

Bibbyman · February 28, 2003, 05:09:02 AM

Fabiola,

Jeff made it real easy to fine people - go to the top of the Forum and click on Member Maps. When the map comes up, change to North America if you have to. Then click on "Bibbyman" on the list on the right side. My green tree will turn red. Look for it in the middle of the EUA in the state of Missouri. Click on the tree and you can read my biography that has a link to the Warden Sawmill website.

You can even find the Arkansawyer a little south of me. But you can't get there from here. ;)

ElectricAl · March 04, 2003, 03:23:51 PM

Wow, you might think I was down at Arkansawyers place.

ElectricAl

L. Wakefield · March 06, 2003, 05:10:54 PM

   Well, I've been a mite busy. We had the last 2 calves on the 1st and 4th of March. April had the sense to calve on the morning of the 1st- nice warm day, no problemo.

   Daisy, OTOH, waited til 0130 on the 4th- it was -11*F and just like 2 years ago, baby would steam but not dry. I even took the salamander into the shed and got it up to about 80* but even with plastic over the windows, as soon as I turned it off, the air would go opaque with the fog, and it was clearly evaporative cooling. I'd gotten out there just as the little one was born- still half in the sac- and mom and I worked for an hour. By then it was 230am, and I was going to have to get up to go to work at 530- so once again it was time for the calf to come inside by the fire. This one was a little more spunky than the last victim- she kept mooing. Laid still, but wasn't quiet.

   About 530- right on time- there is this immense CRASH- so I go zooming into the living room. Baby has stood up and fallen over out of the sled. I scoop her back in and dress madly. Up she stands and goes over again as I am getting my boots on. So into the sled again and off through the living room, the library, and out into the yard- where out she goes again, getting a little more spunky this time, standing up and not wanting to be picked up. So I tried walking her. Back legs worked great, front legs still in plow mode. So into the sled one more time, this time upside down with her eyes rolled up in her head. I said 'that works for me!'- and off we went the last bit into the shed, and dumped her out. She sprang right up like standing and walking was old hat- wobbly but doing it- and tried to figure out who was mom again? Mom had no problem with that.

  Now she's 2 1/2 days old and as near as I can tell, both babies nurse both moms and nobody cares too much. The calves run around madly- hard to say how they can do it in that little space, but they do.. I can't wait til pasture means green and not white.

   The snow is so high that the cows are walking over the fence. I had to put extra wire up in several places. It's going to look really funny when the snow all goes away (that'll be after the big flood..) lw

Norm · March 06, 2003, 05:49:31 PM

We had a galvanized stock tank in our mud room when I was a kid, if we had one that wouldn't dry down or mom was new at it and wouldn't nurse easy, in the house it would come. Us kids thought it was great fun, we would bottle feed it and keep the heat lamps from burning down the house. Doesn't sound near as fun now, good job on keeping the new calves alive. This winter has been hard on livestock.

Paul_H · March 07, 2003, 11:35:13 PM

LW and Norm,
If not fun,it sure must be rewarding to bring them around like that.It's cold and blowing snow outside right now and it helps me appreciate what you must go through.I've been around calving,some,but not to that degree.

Haytrader · March 08, 2003, 03:34:53 AM

I had 11 heifers do it on thier own and then we get a big cold front and had to pull two in a row. One was a black baldy and was big. That wasn't supposed to have happened. Guess we had a fence jumper. At one day old, I was moving the pair out of the nursery pen and the little feller tried to butt me. He's gonna be a good one.

Norm · March 08, 2003, 06:12:11 AM

We haven't had cattle for years but you folks that are calving right now have my respect, there is nothing worse than losing one that you have worked so hard to keep. I know most folks that raise livestock around here are having a hard time because of the cold staying around for so long but even worse is the up and down temps, seems to be harder on em.

I always think that the animal rights people ought to be out there with folks like Haytrader and LW, having to pull a couple of calves or staying up all night waiting, to learn what nature is all about.

burlman · March 11, 2003, 06:44:03 PM

Mid march, calling for another 4 in. of that white stuff again. The snow is now tickling the crotch of your pants. A sunday drive in the car, is to look at snowbanks taller than you standing. The skidders just jump and spin, the snow is all powder and to dry to pack a trail. Snowmobiles can't break a trail either. 28 inches of ice on the lake, but because of all the snow,, there is a good layer of slush. well the weekend is supposed to warm up some. I have a Boss V-plow on my ford pick up, if anyone is in the market for a plow, I highly recomend this unit. I haven't met a road I couldn't open up yet. Well all this will soon melt, the sun will shine, we will strip our parka's off, have a good tug of fresh maple syrup. then we'll stretch out and start slapping black flies,while trying to reel in a speckled trout. Ah life in Canada..burlman

Mark M · March 11, 2003, 08:07:45 PM

We haven't got too much snow around here lately and that is probably a good thing. Here is what happens when we get about 10-12 inches out here on the prairie. I believe this was taken near the Standing Rock Indian reservation about 50 miles south of here.

Mark

Haytrader · March 11, 2003, 08:27:05 PM

Mark,

I sure am glad we haven't had THAT much snow down here. Ya'all can keep it up north.

Oh, is that a John Deere or a Gallion shovin the snow?
;)

Haytrader