A White Christmas!

Its not too often that winter arrives to southern Alberta and actually stays, especially the snow, most of the time it only last for a few days and than either melts with a Chinook or blows away with a west wind, however this year its more like a northern Saskatchewan winter; cold (-30) and lots of snow!


A view across the road, I've never seen this much snow on the prairie. Blair and I have been hunting coyotes down the road and in some spots its drifted to past my knees!

If it looks cold that's because it is, -31!

Looking west down the road. All those tracks in the front yard are from the white-tail deer that frequent our yard every night. So far I've seen one big 5x5 buck and a smaller 6x6.

It looks like someone hit the ditch!

You can see where the deer have been digging up the snow to get at my grass.

I've been trying to keep a track open through the backyard just in case I have to use the back driveway but my last time through I almost got stuck with the truck. There's gotta be a good 2 feet of snow in some spots!

The deer spend most of their time on the mound, the grass came in the best here, last year I put an alfalfa bale out for them but they didn't even touch it.