The view from my porch this morning. The snow was all gone by 10:00 or so, but it was sort of pretty while it lasted.
We've had a really mild winter here this year, but Latah County can have really unpredictable weather. We had snow in June 2008 -- sure, it was gone by late morning too, but it's the principle of the thing. And the record low has been below freezing in every single month of the year. The winter before last there was over 7 feet of snow. Which is all to say that North Idaho is maybe not the ideal location for a farm.
But the dirt sure is nice. When we dug the well for our house, the drilling report said we had 25 feet of topsoil, and I don't think there's a rock on our property other than the gravel we trucked in for our driveway. We're surrounded by thousands of acres of dryland wheat/pea and lentil/canola farms. The weather may not be perfect, and the markets may not be ideal. But the land is fantastic.
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