This was the view out my back door looking into our dooryard at about 7am this morning. That's the wonderful spruce tree that is home to an amazing number of small birds. If you look carefully you can see that the snow goes right up to the roof of the house on the right. That's because it slides off the roof on that side, so the combination of snow falling and falling snow.... hm... well, that's where it all meets.
Whit's workshop is in the white barn. Fortunately we can access it from the house. His yellow Ford chariot is lurking under the snow behind the lilac bush there. (That's the bush on the left by the barn. :)
My grandson was amazed when we opened the door for him. We were considering tying one of those orange bike flags to his snowsuit so we didn't lose him when he went out. :)
Chores were an especially fun challenge this morning. Whit is wading through the snow with a bale of hay for the horses. It was still snowing pretty hard when he went out this morning.
I don't really know how we would have cleared the driveway if we didn't have the Ford backhoe. Two feet is a lot of snow in one storm. During the night, we were getting snow at the rate of two inches per hour for awhile. I woke up a few times to no power, but the electric company had it back on by the time I went to make coffee. (Thank you, guys!) Whit wound up spending most of his day helping out our neighbors by either pushing back piles, or late this afternoon he actually had to help pull a plow truck out of a ditch it had slid into.
Iris and her lambs were doing fine. We have a pair of chickens that apparently don't like living in the coop with their kin. They prefer the sheep pen. They look kind of silly wandering around with the lambs, which were very curious about them. :)
Our ram and his buddy were pretty well snowed into their shelter. They're wading through the snow on a path my son beat down for them to get to the gate so they can eat their grain. Tomorrow we'll have to shovel a better path...not so much for them as for us to get their hay out to them, although they'll certainly appreciate it too!
This was part of the reason why the boys didn't get shoveled out. It took us a few hours just to clear off the cars in the yard. And behind pile number one is...my car! :) Thanks for the help, TBear.
For another perspective on the amount of snow, TBear and Jagger stopped on the path to the back door for me to get their picture. (I've been meaning to get that swag off the door since Valentine's Day, but it's still green, and there's still so much snow that it doesn't look out of place enough yet for me to notice until I look at pictures! LOL!)
It's early to bed tonight. It's been a long day of shoveling and playing in the snow with a little school in between. Tomorrow we have to get crackin' at the books again!
