Snow on the farm, Manitoba Canada.
Yard Winter 1983
Life on the farm in winter, Manitoba, Canada.
People mention snow, well snow is something I know, and windchill.
So sometimes when people who rarely get snow think a little bit is a huge amount, I wanna share what a fairly large amount is like, keeping in mind that there are places where a huge amount is even more than what I experienced.
Please note these are not all from the same time or year…after all winter is yearly but some winters have had more tonnage in snow than others.
By the way, it’s all shovel work – no snow blower and only the occasional snow plow would take pity on us.
Some pictures have had sharpness enhanced to improve detail but click on them and they will be larger, easier to see.
Thanks for the visit!!
There is a barn under there, not a small one either.
There are 2 cars there, one we shoveled out and the other still buried.
View towards the house, from on top of the snowbank.
Always loved the clear cold days after a blizzard, just right for shoveling (you quickly learn how fast exposed skin freezes).
Dutch Doors into the barn.
Dutch Doors Being Shoveled out.
I recall this being very akin to a ski ramp for a while – the snow banks were taller than I am if I was standing on the ground.
Alright so I am only 5ft tall but still.
Behind the barn
Okay, so the barn would end up totally UNDER a snow drift – this was all from 1 blizzard. The problem is that it has to be shoveled off to prevent cave ins.
You can tell by the tracks leading up to the snow on the barn, we had already started. What you can not tell by the picture is some of the things that went while we would be shoveling the roof off.
The dogs went up with us, of course we did not realize the daft buggers would make a race track out of the roof and one actually ran off the roof in a low snow spot. No injuries but he did not do it again and we tried to keep them off the barn after that.
Snow over the fence and the barn.
Snowbanks between the house and the paddocks.
The opposite side – between house and driveway.
Snow between house and driveway.
Snow, view from house to driveway (under that snow) looking towards Highway.
Driveway, usually shoveled out but this time after we had been shoveling most of the day, the highway plow took pity and gave the drive a 15 minute pass with the commercial plow.
After shoveling this driveway for 20 years, I knew the 160 yards by heart.
Oh ya, I measured it cause I wanted to know what distance I was shoveling for.
Driveway after snowplow came through – 160 yards long
Driveway after plow.
Winter of 1986
The yard.
Winter of 1986
Winter 1986_during snowstorm
Winter of 1986 During Snowstorm
Winter of 1987
Winter 1987 the shoveled path from the house
Oh the view during the summer.
Farm I had
Trip Through The Canadian Rockies
~Note the images were “sharpened” to allow for more detail to be seen despite being shot through a train window.~
This is the first picture in the group of photos I took while going through the Canadian Rockies.
Many time have I wished that the camera I had (quite an expensive but non digital one) was just a tiny bit better or that the train stopped to allow for proper picture taking.
Of course going in late Feb/early March, made everything less sunny and of course more wonderfully snowy.
Even as a Manitoban the snow on top of the telephone poles was impressive.
Town the train went through, I thought it was absolutely lovely, always wanted to go back again.
More Scenery….
Pictorially Inspired 