Life in the mountains is always a challenge and it can really test you. Sunday we had high winds that were 25 MPH or higher in gusts. It blew down 5 trees and left several leaners. The aspen were live trees which we find sad as they are future firewood. One tree fell down blocking access to the other end of our property and keeping us from cutting up the down aspen. I had not planned to spend the day cutting up a 15" dead pine tree and also a dead leaning pine but that is what we did.
I saw a woman on TV say that when the flowers of fireweed reached the top of the stalk that indicated that there was only 6 weeks before winter. Sounds right to me but these intervening events are putting the squeeze on us for getting ready for winter. We still have the snow fencing to put up, the stone work to repair the back wall where we put the door for Taylor, and we still have the snow equipment to get ready. The fireweed lost its flowers two weeks ago and that does not leave much time for getting things done if the saying is correct.
It will now be a race to the finish to make sure we are ready for winter. When the ground is frozen it is hard to drive 'T' posts for the snow fence. The owner of the property across from us has mulched all his trees so there is nothing to block the wind so that snow fence is important. Last year we were not ready for the drifting so this year we need to be more prepared. Winter is closing in on us fast and once we have snow on the ground anything left undone will remain that way until next spring. Life in the mountains seems to test us at every turn.
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