The Blizzards of '10

Wirehaired Vizsla on the Last Frontier!

Thanks to Vickie, owner of the lucky and beautiful Zsofi (Zöldmáli Ancsa) for sharing these really cool photos! Life in Alaska for a Wirehaired Vizsla is quite a bit different than it is here in Virginia, despite the snow cover here!

I sure do love those Zöldmáli dogs!

Aftermath

Conditions are perfect for slowly getting rid of all this snow without floods and mudpits till summer. Sunny and cool days, cold nights. A lot of the snow is evaporating, and we hope to get the horses out for a trail ride this weekend. And the dogs are really in need of a good run on some grass. Not sure what to tell them there, it's going to be a while.

This photo doesn't really do this justice, but on rt. 340 just north of us, this stretch of road drifted so badly that people were trapped on the highway overnight in their cars. Sandy snapped this picture as we passed through a couple days afterwards, and some of these banks were over 10 feet high.

The Cavalry Drives a Bobcat.

We. Are. OUT!! Thanks to a bobcat on tracks. This guy saved us probably fifty man hours in fifty minutes. I don't yet know what he's charging us, but I know what I'll write in the memo line of the check: Worth Every Penny.

We are going out to dinner with our neighbors tonight and I am SO excited to get out of the house. Even driving a car is weird, having driven nothing but the ATV and tractor for 8 to 12 hours a day for a week.

Here's the ATV on diesel duty...

And here's how we do some indoor bird dog training...

Diesel and Beer.

What if you and your neighbors spent five days plowing a mile of private road to finally get to the main roads, and then woke up to find a quarter mile of five foot drifts between you and freedom?

That's what we're dealing with here. Tomorrow another long, hard day of moving snow begins, and I'm not sure we won't need at least one more day after that to break through.

Before the latest wave of snow my next door neighbor and I left trucks at the end of our road. Today I hand shoveled a path wide enough for an ATV to get from our road to the adjacent road, so now at least we can access our truck to restock on food and the two things we've been going through most quickly - diesel and beer.