When I was a child some 60+ years ago, we had similar weather. I used to wonder how Santa would show up riding in a sleigh designed for snow. Yeah, living on a farm, we really did have Santa show up riding on a sleigh. But pulled by two horses as the reindeer were resting in the barn. ;-)
Snow in our area revitalizes the wells with fresh clean water as it melts slowly and so is absorbed rather than running off to the streams. It also helps kill off the bugs like mosquitoes and fleas of which I'm not fond.
However the deer population will grow out of control again due to the abundance of grass and other fodder easy to access. Hunters will have a good season next year.
Canada Geese, usually are in our corn field, but not so this year. Don't know why.
The Coyotes are having a field day in the woods. We hear them nearly every evening. We have cows so the Coyotes aren't a problem. However in the evening we only let our 2 small dogs outside when accompanied by the 2 big dogs, and one of us humans.
