Gary Reeder
yep, we are right in the middle of around
Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 13:40

8 million acres of National Forest, most of which are pine trees. Most people, when they move here, want a lot of trees surrounding their houses. They don't realize that makes them much more prone to have bad forest fires near their houses. We only have a few blue spruce in the back yard and a few spruce and aspen and cottonwood trees in the front yard. We have 2 acres and most of it has no trees on it. This was a bad fire a couple of years ago in front of our house about half a mile away. Fortunately the wind was blowing it away from us.

This is another one that was a bit farther away from us and never came over the mountain toward us.

This one was in front of our house and again the wind was blowing it away from us.

As you can see we are surrounded by pine trees. This is on the way to work last year.


Usually when we get a lot of rain during our Monsoon that means we will have a heavy snow year. In 2017 our house was pretty much covered in snow.

6 feet of snow on the deck

Had to dig out to let the dogs out.

looking out the back window

Two years before that the house was almost totally covered.

two vehicles under there

the house completely under. Only the chimney is visible.

the 2 vehicles from the other side.

the other side of the house, completely under

digging out

It probably won't be that much snow this year as it runs in cycles but we hopefully will get a good snow year.