Well here we are stuck in the middle, not winter, but not spring, a new season called “Ice and bipolar weather”. Also of course it is the Ides of March. Beware the Ides of March is not an idle warning.
On the prairies of North America March is regarded with extreme caution for being highly fickle in terms of weather. It ranges from t-shirt weather at noon to raging blizzard at supper time. The weather flip flops back and forth catching the unwary and wreaking havoc. And always the wind, lots of winds scouring the landscape with both wintry blasts and Chinook warm winds which eat snow at a voracious pace.
While it’s dangerous for humans it’s doubly dangerous for Ranchers who have their cow herds calving in March. When the weather flops to the blizzard side you must catch the cows calving or the calves can die of exposure. Even when the cows to calve are kept in a birthing pasture close to the farm yard where they can be observed many a Rancher has found the cow at the far end of the facility out in the elements with fresh calf all but buried in the snow. You must tag the calf while avoiding being trampled by irate mother, throw the calf on a sled and haul calf with mother bellowing back into the barn and get the calves temperature back up to normal. Then watch the calf to be sure they get up and begin to feed.
Prairie cattle breeds are tough, they have to be to exist at all, but even the tough breed’s calves are susceptible to pneumonia when freshly born.
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Of course the other notable event for this time of year is development of vehicle eating potholes in the highway and street systems. Apparently it is the next think to impossible to build a street or highway system that doesn’t disintegrate every spring and get pounded into huge holes. I believe the building, maintenance of the roads and repair of the smashed vehicles is an industry onto itself. All attributed they say to the extreme temperature change that occur on the prairies.
They also say “until there is three snows on the backs of crows” winter is not over. But that’s March for you, it has more superstitions wrapped around it than harvest time and what the moon is doing.
Nevertheless the “do list” always has entries and the dogs are full of enthusiasm to go out and rip around at full speed, so time is never heavy on our hands is it?.
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Martin E. Silenus