Winter in Wyoming

[J-L]

Well it’s winter in Wyoming,
and the gentle breezes blow,
70 miles an hour
when its 25 below.
Oh how I love Wyoming,
when the snow is up to your butt.
You take a breath of winter air,
and your nose freezes shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful,
so I guess I’ll hang around.
I could never leave Wyoming,
because my ass is froze to the ground!
(Author unknown)

[Carl Russell]

Nice:rolleyes:

Carl

[blue80]

So that’s how I get a donkey to stand still…:rolleyes:

always learning on this site, Thanks!

[Gabe Ayers]

Question:

Hay, do you know what we call a good second cutting hay bale in the back of the Escort station wagon?

Answer:

A forty pound Appalachian air freshener. Doesn’t hang from the rear view mirror very well, but does the job….

[LostFarmer]

That is a good one Wes. It could have been you that penned it.

[J-L]

Thanks Kari, I’m afraid my poetry goes unappreciated by our eastern friends!

[J-L]

Jason, just saw your ‘air freshener’ joke. Good one!

[OldKat]

@J-L 13279 wrote:

Well it’s winter in Wyoming,
and the gentle breezes blow,
70 miles an hour
when its 25 below.
Oh how I love Wyoming,
when the snow is up to your butt.
You take a breath of winter air,
and your nose freezes shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful,
so I guess I’ll hang around.
I could never leave Wyoming,
because my ass is froze to the ground!
(Author unknown)

J-L,

When I was in high school I had a homeroom teacher named Mr. Schultz. After our sophomore year he quit teaching to move to Wyoming to run what I took at the time to be sort of fishing/hunting lodge type of thing that his in-laws owned. Much later I learned that it was actually more of a restaurant.

Lost track of him for about 15 or 16 years after that, but when we moved to the town where we now live there he was as the principal at the school where my wife was teaching. Took me about a year or so to figure out who he was, but when I finally did I asked him “What happened to Wyoming? I thought you were all excited about moving up there”

He sort of laughed and said; “Oh it is a beautiful and wonderful place, but it wasn’t for me … it is too darn cold. I was all right with it until one night when I closed down the restaurant and got in my car to leave, but couldn’t; it was frozen to the parking lot!” After we both laughed about that for a little while he said; “I told my wife that night that when my car can roll so am I, you are welcome to go with me or stay here …your call!” He made it clear that really loved going up there IN THE SUMMER, and continued to do so until his in-laws passed away. However, he said he never went back in the winter. I guess rugged individuals aren’t as plentiful where I live as where you live, ’cause quite frankly I don’t think I would deal real well with those kinds of conditions either!

[Scott G]

Being I only live about 30 miles south of Laramie I can relate to Wes’ articulate work of poetry…

Currently 60 mph sustained, no big deal, still need to feed. I just aim for two feed bunks up and then it lands exactly where I want it too…

Mama still needs firewood. I’ll get out there while it is still just a 60mph breeze and get it done…

When it comes to directional felling we have one more consideration out here when you’re planning the lay. You have to consider the skid when your tree lands 50′ downwind from where you felled it…

We use log chains up here for weather/wind vanes. Anything else less durable ends up in Nebraska…:)

[LostFarmer]

I can’t quite throw a rock to Wyoming but I can hit it with a .22. 😀

We live in a little valley with mountains on 3 sides. We don’t get neat the wind that most of Wyoming gets. At 6600 feet, we do get some chilly nights. Never need to worry about an AC unit but a bigger stove is a necessity.

Been to Wes’s place a couple of times. He lives right down in the willow breaks. I wondered about that until we went up on top. Nearly froze me up and I am not exactly easy to chill. Around these parts everyone is looking to be on the hill to get the view and down there you were looking for a low point out of the wind. Goes to show you those that have been there before know what they are doing.

[J-L]

Too true about the older places (homesteaded earliest) being down in the brush. Parts of my place were homesteaded by my family early in the 1870’s, the windy bench where I took the Lost Farmer was homesteaded around 1910or so. Where Kari lives gets more snow than us though.
Scott, we are very similar to Laramie in elevation and climate. Very few places on earth are windier than that Arlington, Rock River, Bosler country around Laramie. Northern CO sure ain’t no picnic either. Are you close to the Ft. Collins area?

[Rod]

Good poem. My wife was giving me a haircut when we both read it on my Blackberry in my lap and we cracked up laughing. Good thing she stopped working while she was giggling.

[Scott G]

Wes,
I live about 20 miles west of Ft. Collins. Around 8000′ on Mt. Ethel in the Stove Prairie area. Been quite the fall, we’ve had 75-80″ of total snowfall already this season although with the wind taking it away its’ ultimate destination is usually Nebraska…

[LostFarmer]

A Dealt Card by Karli Moulton

The winters icy breath, as cold as fear
Forces chill inside every living one
Chilling hearts dealing cards deciding death
The icicles like cold daggers of doom
Freeze life sucking breath from every cold room
Chilling hearts dealing cards deciding death
The frosts nip as painful as sharks bite
Haughtily decides who will die tonight
Chilling hearts dealing cards deciding death
The moons glare as chilling as a cold nail
Hammers heat out of this frozen morbid land
Chilling hearts dealing cards deciding death
Icy fear cold daggers sharks bite cold nails
Chilling hearts dealing cards deciding death

My daughter wrote this for her 8th grade English class. A little dark but not bad for a kid. 😉

[Lingodog13]

Kari,
Tell your daughter to be careful, these long bitter winters can warp you! I ended up an English major because of them. When I think about it, Hell is a frozen place in my mind, too. Stay warm up there.

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