Pushing Snow Weekend

 "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."- Friedrich Nietzsche

February - Calm before the storm

"The purpose of life is not to be happy.  It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you lived." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Waiting for Springtime

 "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, that is called a mistake." - Confucius

After the cold, snow

"The poor tell us who we are, and the prophets tell us who we could be.  So we hide the poor and kill the prophets." - Philip Berrigan

Flying Solo

 "I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he doesn't want to do." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Snow Day

 "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

A few thoughts at the end of 2022

 "If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Neitzsche

Snowpocalypse 2022 - Updated

 "There is no shame in making an honest effort." - Epictetus

It begins...

 "Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Snow and more snow - plus cold!

 "When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?" - Epictetus

First snow this season

 "When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans." - Marcus Aurelius

Happy Husky

 "We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I have a dog that seems to enjoy the snow.  I wish the dog run was a bit larger, so she could get some speed up and exercise as much as she should.  She's still a puppy and likes to bite and chew quite a bit, but she is very smart, and getting better at following directions.  She is really a sweetheart and although she looks like a big bad scary wolf, she's easily frightened.  But mostly she's a happy playful girl.

 

The Winter Blues

Winter wasn't terribly bad this year... until February through early March.

First snow this season

Snow started while I was at work yesterday.  I was a little surprised that it was able to stick - not to mention accumulate a couple of inches!

Snow Plowing

The first summer after we moved to Idaho, I bought a little tractor.  It's a 13 Horsepower, 2 cylinder diesel tractor with 4x4, a PTO and a hydraulic bucket loader.  It came with a 4ft rotary tiller and a back blade.

Sledding Raven

I saw this video and had to put it up.  This raven is sledding (or snowboarding) using what appears to be the lid from a jar. 

 EDIT:  I see this video is no longer viewable because of the originating country.  Utterly stupid political censorship of... a freaking raven.  Hopefully the *exact same video* from a different source can remain up.

 

I was never very fond of ravens, but I changed my mind after meeting one when I lived in the high desert.  This raven had been tamed by a friend, and was a pretty cool pet.  The raven had a collection of shiny stuff - coins, pull-tops from beer cans, aluminum foil, etc.  When you would give him a piece of dry dog food, he would go to his treasures and bring you back something that he valued in exchange. 

How cool is that?  Too bad people can't understand this basic exchange!