Snow in Alabama
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Yes!!!
And nice pic btw!
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Sorry about that I’m on my way, I was wondering why we only got 8 inches…
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Sorry, but Snow is an adult now. I told it just the other day that if it was go’n to go out drink’n and carous’n, it would have to find its own way home.
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@Hillbilly_picker , @undone
Those posts are hilarious!
I realize we only got dusted here at our place - across the county, accumulation is quite a bit deeper & with an ice or slush layer under it (on the roads) & alot of things are pretty much shut down and/or delayed due to driving conditions or power outage. I’m a transplant from the Northeast, so no stranger to hefty amounts of snow and sub zero temps, icing, etc… and the dangers they pose.
Prayers for all who’ve been negatively impacted by this storm 
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Yup, @Hillbilly_picker and @undone, we’re originally from Western New York, and lived in Central PA and northern Ohio for a while as well. My brother-in-law sent us pics in reply that definitely put our dusting to shame. Thanks for the fun replies. We certainly don’t miss all that white stuff. Stay safe dealing with all of it.
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I guess I’m in the only state with no snowfall, which is quite ironic. Love the pictures guys.
@JKL tell your weather to come down here; it’s hot!
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Not me, pal! I don’t go nowhere there are fire ants! 
But it sure looks pretty!
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6" last night S of Nash. I’ve not seen an inch of accumulation in 10 years. Typically our big snow for the year is 1/2" that disappears by noon…so this is not common in my neck of the woods.
With all of that said I was out by 6:30 this morn working on my two hours of morning chores (critter care). Once that was completed I thought it would be a great chance to walk some of the property with our two front porch dogs.
I call our homestead “The Back of Beyond”. In your travels if you are heading to “Beyond” then you have to travel all the way to The Back of Beyond to make it to our place. Use to be seven miles to the closest gas station… then an interstate came through about 2 miles North of me through the woods (840 S of Nash). Then the City of Murfreesboro (center of town is 12 miles away) decided to make the 1400 acres (owned by no more than 10 families combined) around me part of the West most part of the “Murfreesboro Rural Dev Zone” (land/home is the last in it W of Murf). Good part about the new zoning was they had to run public water and high speed internet (I use to be on satellite and well water) AT&T had $9K just for the fiber to run 1/4+ mile down my driveway to my house. They asked “You are going to sign up for TV and internet since it cost us around $12K just get service back to your house?”. I told them “Absolutely, I am a big spender, sign me up for the $19.99/month plan”.
Today? The neighboring farmers/property owners are selling their land for $30K/acre if you buy 100-200 acres at once. Neighbor that borders one side of me just sold 450 acres to some very wealthy “Horse Folks”. It’s going to be a horse farm… so much better than a subdivision. Oh there’s 3400 homes going in on the last two vacant miles before you get to my place (and the horse farm).
If I didn’t love the place so much I’d take the money and run and move 20 miles deeper into the woods. We have almost 70 acres. Murfreesboro added 50K people to the city in the last 10 years…and they all built from the city limits to within 2 miles of me. McMansions everywhere. Absolutely hideous 5K sq ft homes out here in the country that look like they belong on a Country Club golf course. KEEP OUT!
We have 1/2 mile of this fabulous spring-fed stream running through our property.
I keep Honey Bees. We vacationed for the summer two years ago all over Europe. The kids loved the beautiful colors of homes of Burano, Italy (Island close to Venice)so they decided to have a painting party on my hive boxes and matched the colors of the Burano homes.
We don’t row crop because most of my fields are no larger than 4 acres and down to about 1/2 acre. Great rotational grazing land for cattle (then I decided not to get into it, was going to grow out two/yr) for food. Keep one and sell the other. So I had set up small fields to rotational graze. Probably some of the best hunting in the area. I’m the only one that hunts out of all the property owners.
And this is what it looks like from the back of The Back of Beyond.
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My son wears jeans and work boots all summer (even to school) and then when winter rolls around he’s in shorts and short-sleeved shirts all winter long (outside).
Kids these days. I just shake my head and go on about my business.
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Beautiful property and pups! Is the black dog an Australian Shepherd? He/she looks just like an Aussie we picked up from a ranch in Colorado. We named her Kelsey (my grandfather’s last name), and she herded our three kids for a wonderful 13 years as we moved all over the country. Sure do miss that dog. Thanks for sharing the pics. Hope you’re able to keep that property just the way it is today.
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Yes she’s an Aussie and looks just like one but is BIG! There’s something else in her and it really only shows in her size.
Due to her coloration I named her 'Shady Grove"…we call her “Shady”. She is a great dog but that heeler/lab mix in the pic is the best dog I have ever owned. Simply an amazing dog. We have another we inherited when we purchased the place. She’s either 15 or 16 can barely get around on a good day in the summer…so no way she’s coming out of her dog house with all this white stuff on the ground. My chickens (I free range 20 or so) didn’t want anything to do with the snow either.
Yes, going to try and hold out as long as I can. Realtors hit me up all the time due to this land being some of the “hottest” S of Nash right now. One said “just name you price because I have out of town buyers lined up for any land in your area” so I said OK, $5 million as is (I just wanted the agent(s) to leave me alone). County approached me about it too. We’ve put in 3 entire new school districts around me in 7 years or so. The newest one (last year…k-12 and probably 300 per grade) filled up on day 1…and there is no doubt that at least 4K homes are coming to my area. They can’t build them fast enough around here. Most homes with land over 2 acres gets purchased within a week or so. That’s “just out of the burgs”. Rural property with land typically gets 5-20 offers the first day or so on the market. When the 450 acres went up for sale they decided to have a single day walk of the property for everyone - over 300 buyers showed up to view it. Oh, a land owner put 20 acres up for sale (about a mile or so deeper than me, no pub water and no internet) He asked $250K…by the end of the day he got $680K out of it because a bidding war ensued. It was around what it should have been listed at/sold for…his agent had absolutely no clue it was worth that and neither did he.
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That’s is absolutely crazy! I’m originally from Ohio, lived in Germany for 3 years, been to 40ish different countries, skied on a glacier in the Alps (Austria)…and I’ve never seen snow that deep nor do I ever want to. (We did have a couple feet of snow in Ohio in 1976 or 1977).
Good luck!
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The son wearing shorts (Guitarson) does the same exact thing - boots & jeans all summer long… 
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It was “The Great Blizzard of '78”… But who’s counting?!
What part of Germany? I was stationed in Regensburg (in the Black Forest region between Munich and Nurnberg). I loved it, I mean really loved it!!! Can’t wait to go back someday!
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I was in Bamberg just north (40 ish miles?) of Nurnberg. I was there from 88 to 91 (in Iraq 90 and 91 for the most part but deployed out of Germany).
We took an extended European vacation two summers ago. We wanted to flying into Amsterdam, cruise down through Germany to see Bamberg, Nuremburg, then onto Munich, into the Alps (Austria), down to Venice, over to Florence, down to Rome, further down to Naples, and then to the Amalfi Coast and then fly back.
I had a pretty good friend “back in the day” that married a German woman and stayed in Germany. Hadn’t heard from him in 15 years or so, called his house in Germany and his wife said they had been divorced for 10 years. She said that I could still certainly stop by with my family of 5 and crash at her place (Use to crash their in my younger days) but she 100% suggested that I not come to Bamberg. Our old post/base/casern had been shuttered years ago and it was now 100% immigrant housing and she said there were at least 20K immigrants living there and that the once beautiful town (small) had been ruined and that none of the woman go out at night. It’s a shame because Bamberg was the only decent size town/city that was not bombed so it was pristine and had not lost it’s art, architecture or a single structure to war…it is/was amazing (google some pics if you get the time). So any way, 19 and 15 yr old daughter, 14yr old son, wife and myself so there was no way I was going to put them in that environment so we skipped Amsterdam and Germany.
It was a 100% self planned trip. We rented homes via AirBnb by speaking with the owners, booked our own flights, and went at it…all with using trains outside of in Austria. Other catch - Every one in the family got the same size backpack and that was all you could take! It was great (All of Italy and Austria). We’d spend 2-4 nights in each place then move on to the next. It was an absolute blast, we rented fairly nice homes (at least 3 bedrooms), splurged on all the tours by skip the line (Vatican), interpreter (in Italy) and no more than 12 in a group for the tour, we ate good, and had a great time. $18K all in for a family of 5 wondering around for several weeks. Key? Fly Air Portugal from Newark to Lisbon Portugal and then fly from there over to Italy - saved us $800/head vs direct flights and on the way over to Italy (Naples) via Lisbon we only had a 30 minute layover. We did intentionally stay in Lisbon, Portugal on the way home for 2 nights and 2 days to see the sights. I had been to Spain and France but never to Portugal so we decided to see it.
I’d certainly want to go back to Germany but I’d like another capable male in the group due to their immigrant issues.
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Hmmmmn, my Casern in Regensberg closed down too!.. While I was there! We were the last group to ever be stationed there (only 150 of us). We then moved to Hohenfels (close to Graffenwoehr) and not far from Nurnberg. I was there in '84 - '85 right before they brought down the wall. The Germans loved us (in Regensberg) since we were such a small base. (Not overtaken by U.S. soldiers).
I got stranded overnight once in Bamberg… Some kind of terrorist threat that never amounted to anything…
Great and wonderful memories!!! I’d do it all over again!
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Oh this is the home we rented on the side of the Alps between Innsbruck, Austria and Munich. It was only maybe an hour to Munich from here (Hinter tux Glacier area in Mayerhofen, Austria). We skied for my Bday on top the Glacier on July 14th! Ha! Was 45 degrees up there!
Home was 20 minutes from the 45 min ski lift ride straight up the Alps to the top of the Glacier. Home slept 12 and we rented it for $180/night. Family of 5 can’t get two hotel rooms for that!
Home we rented about 1/2 mile up the side of the Alps.
View off deck on home…
Last (3rd) ski lift before making it to the top of the Alps and onto the glacier! At 1:00 as you look at the pic (you will have to click on pic to see entire image0. and on the edge way down there to the right…that’s where we launched from. 45 mins to get to the top…and that was walking straight off 1 lift and onto the next. There’s about 1/2 mile of air below us in the pic.
If you make it to Germany then it’s only an hour away from Munich. Ski town about like Vale or Aspen - cheap to visit in the summer, white water rafting, beer fests (they all speak German/follow German customs in the Alps in Austria so you would be right at home). It is an absolutely beautiful place…my favorite so far to ever visit.
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