Early February and we are having a shocking warm spell. The snow melted in a couple of days and the rain has been significant. The result is water runoff that has moved much of my road down to the pasture. Two foot deep crevasses run the length of the road and they are wide enough to make crossing them in my truck unlikely. I don't want to break an axle.
We are now driving down a fence line that is not meant to be a road and is very soft from the excess water. The drive out left deep ruts and back (uphill) required a slow process that dug deeper ruts and at times made me think we may need to walk home. Not that the walk would be horrible, just slogging through mud is not high on my lift.
If we can have a couple of days without rain we might dry enough to run the fence line without sliding into the crevasse on the road. When living in remote areas we are reminded often of why everyone does not want to live here. We have been stranded only a couple of days at a time with heavy snow fall or severe mud and damaged roads. Others have not been so lucky. One of our neighbors had a substantial portion of his road washed out that required weeks of work and several loads of gravel to fix.
Having a day we cannot travel we get to do some things we have been putting off.
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