Sticky Snow

The temperatures have been in the high 20s or low 30s at night, and into the high 30s low 40s in the daytime. This makes for some very sticky snow, like what I was used to in Georgia. The snow down there, when we got it, was all slushy and would stick together great for making snowmen. Up here the snow is dry and powdery and we've had some too powdery to even sled on. Just too fluffy.

Sunday evening we got a lot of fast falling, heavy, slushy snow. It stuck, even though it was around 34 or 36 degrees out. It stuck like mad to the bird netting over the rabbit colony. The bird netting is usually invisible but on Monday morning it looked like mosquito netting. It's gotten all saggy from the weight of the snow, too.


This doe is kind of checking out the snow on the netting, but mostly she was trying to reach that shrub/sapling to nibble some bark and buds. Rabbits like to eat tree bark, especially apple tree bark. Every once in a while I cut off some apple tree branch and put it in the colony for them to chew on.


A raccoon was evidently nosing around the chicken house. The chickens are locked in their coop and fenced run for a few days. We'll set a live trap and either catch the raccoon or convince ourselves he's wandered off.