Pipe finally got here

[Jogeephus]

About the same with us but we don't have a mountain range dividing us. If I understand it right, ya'll get most of your water during the winter because the mountains will dump the water before it can get to the other side during the warmer months. Is that right?

[M5farm]

Looks like a Bountiful harvest and that cutting block in the picture has seen quite a few knives.

[Kathie in Thorp]

About the same with us but we don't have a mountain range dividing us. If I understand it right, ya'll get most of your water during the winter because the mountains will dump the water before it can get to the other side during the warmer months. Is that right?

Pretty much. The west side gets lotsa rain in the winter; we get snow. In the spring, west side gets rain and so do we -- and we get flooding from the combination of mountain snow melt and rain. The west side is not generally soggy during the summer, but they get some moisture and high humidity; we have hot/dry.

[Jogeephus]

Amazing what a mountain range can do. So would this mean you have a lot of ponderosa pine and that type tree?

[Kathie in Thorp]

Amazing what a mountain range can do. So would this mean you have a lot of ponderosa pine and that type tree?

Another 2 miles north of us Joe, are lots of pines -- ponderosas are some. (We have hay fields pretty much surrounding us -- export quality and very dam expensive -- we are at the base of the foothills to the Cascades.) Our forest here are much different than yours in the South. I'm always amazed on trips to MO -- we have coniferous forests (needles); you have deciduous forests (leaves). Look at a WA map; see I-90 that runs E/W from Spokane to Seattle. We are roughly 100 miles E. of Seattle, across the mountains, viar Snoqualmie pass. When they close Snoqualmie during bad winter storms, they shut it down on the east side at Ellensburg. I can take back roads to go further NW to home from job at E-burg (as can folks that live at Cle Elum -- but once you get to Cle Elum, you're done -- no way to get over the pass).

[Jogeephus]

Our forest here are much different than yours in the South. I'm always amazed on trips to MO -- we have coniferous forests (needles); you have deciduous forests (leaves).

Maybe in north Georgia but not where I live. I live in the coastal plain and its a coniferous forest as well.

If its not in cotton our woods look similar to this.

[Kathie in Thorp]

Pretty country -- similar to some I've seen in the Carolinas.

[Jogeephus]

Yes, the coastal plain of the Carolinas is very similar. You have to get past the sand hills to get into the deciduous forests. Prettier country up there. IMHO