Hello dear friends! I sure hope this post finds you all healthy, your animals warm, and everyone braced for the brutal weather sweeping across the US. I don’t know about all of you, but to me, it seems chores take so much longer in the winter weather. We get finished with morning chores and it’s time to start it all over. First of all, I dress in so many layers I look like the abdominal snowman in Rudolf. I do not like to be cold and would rather sweat in 100 degree weather than to wear 5 layers prohibiting movement. Chopping ice, feeding hay, strawing down shelters… well many of you know the drill, and for those of you who don’t I would gladly have you stay at our place and help for first-hand experience. (wink, wink)!
We are to get drifting snow tomorrow into Monday, the amount unknown. Oh how that thought takes me down memory lane to when I was a kid. It was a time when haying the cattle and horses was done by feeding little square bales off of a flat bed trailer behind a tractor or off the truck bed. Mom and Dad rented a farm about 5 miles from the house where we kept a set of cows. It snowed so hard and drifted so much that when dad and I were headed there to feed, we hit a drift that was higher than the truck hood… no way to plow through…. We headed back home. Luckily dad kept a spare supply of hay in an old barn at this place. We saddled horses and road to the rent ground. To feed, we put a rope around the bale and drug the bales out to the cows. We did this every day until it melted enough for road graders to plow through to open the roads. That is a winter I will never forget. I am hoping that it doesn’t come that bad tomorrow… but if it does… well it is safe to say that we will be making memories working to make it through.
Well, my toes have warmed back up and another log needs to be added to the fire, so I guess enough of memory lane. LOL However, before I go, I wanted to share a word search puzzle I created using words that describe us and our operation. I thought you all might enjoy solving it while trying to stay warm these next few days. I will post the answers next time I make it back to my computer. Oh and if you know someone looking… I still have one, adorable, tri, male, American Corgi available. Two of his siblings are in their new homes and one brother is awaiting a warmer flight to Massachusetts.
Until next time, Happy Trails!!!
