For anyone who’s ever climbed Mt Washington you know it sports all manner of fancy weather instruments, but because we don’t get state and federal funding here at Mercy Hill Farm, we use our farm sign as a snowmeter. Long about January 1, snow starts to hide the bottom of the sign. Come February it pretty much disappears under a blanket of white. Then in March, it starts to poke out again.

Well this year we got a little anxious for spring, so we in fact dug it out a bit by hand. Nature was undaunted and kept on piling up the snow despite our best efforts. My brother, who loves the snow is probably making matters worse with his nordic “snow dance.” No telling what THAT does to the environment.

Guess I’ll just keep on strumming and wait it out.