[AT] today in the snow - also Harvest machinery trip

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 02:32:18 PDT 2013


Today we actually got rain. It sure is good for the snow and frozen ground.
I like where I live but I don't like that trhree of the four last winters
have been extremely cold, snowy and long. Six months are way to long and
3-4 months longer than normal.

Mattias

www.rodjagard.n.nu


2013/4/12 Grant Brians <sales at heirloom-organic.com>

> Mattias, I like the humor a lot! The difference of course is that we are
> semi-arid warm variant not COLD variant. I agree completely with you. Also,
> if I were from there I suspect I would like where I was. My opinion is that
> most places are good places to live if there are not too many people
> (highly
> variable depending on where and who lives there), not too much violence and
> if people decide that it is a good place to live. Lack of pride in a place
> makes it even more unliveable than too much pride usually, but in the happy
> medium of proud to be in a place and wanting to make sure it is a good
> place
> to be.
>      No I do not have Swedish ancestors, but I have certainly known LOTS of
> people who do and I think Scandinavia has lots of fine people and some not
> so fine (like most places.)
>            Grant Brians
>
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> Subject: Re: [AT] today in the snow - also Harvest machinery trip
>
>
> Thank you for the story Grant. We also had no rain in six months and
> nothing is growing, irrigation wouldn't help either ;-)
> Den 11 apr 2013 16:32 skrev "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com>:
>
> > This reminds me why I like living here in coastal central California.
> This
> > morning when I got to the ranch to load the truck out at 3:30 it was 47
> > degrees and right now at 6:55AM it is 44 degrees. These cold temperatures
> > don't even need a jacket when moving around.
> >      On the downside, we have not had a significant rain since December
> and
> > won't get one until winter rolls around again unless there is a tropical
> > storm that tracks 200+ miles of normal AND packs rain. I have already
> used
> > a
> > significant portion of this years pipeline water allotment irrigating
> > Spinach, Lettuce, Turnips etc. at my home place and will have to switch
> to
> > all well water there like the other ranches.
> >   SNIP
>
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