Posts Tagged "Snow"

One morning last week I woke up as usual.  It’s always nice to wake up . . as usual!   I went out and tended the chickens.  It was so nice that all the snow had melted.  First time in over a week that I wasn’t tromping through snow.  Thank goodness for my Amish boots!  Speck likes to sleep late . . he’s a lot like I used to be!  About 9 a.m., Speck decided to rise and shine and the first thing we do is go outside.  I couldn’t believe it when I looked out.

I couldn’t believe it had happened so quickly!  It was fat, sloppy flakes and I knew the snow wasn’t going to stick but we went from no snow to the ground being covered in no time at all.  I was almost frustrated to see the snow, but then I looked out the front and saw this:

Then I was happy it’s snowing.  I never get enough of looking out at this tree.  I’m so glad that lot is low and water stands so hopefully no one will cut that tree down and build a house there.

By mid-afternoon, the snow was all gone and we had more wet, soggy ground showing.

Thick, fat, wet, sloppy snow had been falling for a few hours.  We looked out and . . whoa!  The chicken run is sagging under the weight of the snow.

Ahh . . Vince to the rescue!

Swept the snow off the run ..

Swept the snow off the chicken tunnel . .

All is well but .. where are the chickens?  Sitting in the coop, in front of the heater, discussing all those chicken commercials from last night’s Superbowl.  Don’t you think my chickens should be in commercials?  They’re a heckuva lot cuter than all those chickens in the commercials last night!  Yep, that’s what Ruby thinks too!

It’s so pretty!  Snow pictures could almost be a postcard . . a winder wonderland.

Until . . .

The businesses have their parking lots cleaned and all the parking lot crud gets scraped up with the snow and we have mounds and mounds of icky snow!  And, look how dirty and cruddy all those vehicles are from driving in the snow!

At Wal-Mart ..

At the grocery store  . .

Even my own driveway!  Yes, the blue trash can is in front because the sidewalk to the back has not been shoveled!   Pretend it isn’t there . . I tried to crop it out!

I’m ready to see green grass and flowers . . no piles of snow, no icicles hanging down.  And while we’re talking about snow, what time does the snow plow driver get up?  I’m not complaining that he’s coming by my house .. I just wish he didn’t wake up quite so early!  I know . . he’s kinda like Santa.  He has a lot of territory to cover and I’m real happy that he’s out there doing his job.

With the snow, there are all kinds of tracks in the yard in the mornings.  It’s fun to go out and see what has been out there.  Looks like some critter was going in circles last night!

The chicken castle coop isn’t very well insulated and with the heater on, the snow melts on the roof . . and drips down . . and forms swords!

This is right where I stand to check eggs.  Do you think if this came loose and hit me on the head, would it cause serious bodily injury?

Probably not hurt at all.   I have a pretty hard head but I’m betting you already figured that out!

I didn’t do anything to this picture.  It’s the most gorgeous shade of blue outside.

You can see that the snow is still falling.  I measured a spot that didn’t have any drifts and we have 8″ so far.

Chad had a rough time getting home.  The trip normally takes him about an hour and it took right at 2 hours today.  And this is what I saw when he walked into the house.

A black eye, 3 stitches in his eyebrow, bent glasses!  How did he think I would NOT notice?  And, what would he have done if the medical bills had arrived before I saw him?

There’s something about January and accidents for Chad.  This was last year’s accident and you can still see one of the scars there near his left wrist from the arrow accident.  Tuesday night in karate class, Chad slipped and caught a knee in the eye.  He didn’t call me because he said he wanted to see if I would notice.  I asked him what his teacher said and Chad said he was impressed that he went and got stitches and got back before class was over.  Think he would have done that in History or Math or French?  Doubtful.

I know . . it’s suppose to be Rain, Rain . . Go Away!  But dang, we have a lot of snow.  I took several videos to post for my friends in Louisiana but I have a new camera and I have no idea where it put my videos.  They’re somewhere and I’ll find them but I don’t have time to do it right now.  A snow video in July or August might be nice!

These pictures were taken this morning and it has snowed non-stop since then.   I went out and shoveled a spot for Speck.  Speck went out and within 10 minutes, you couldn’t even see the spot I’d shoveled.

Isn’t it gorgeous looking out my front door?

No chickens in sight!  They’re all sitting around the heater in the coop reading their Kindles!  No!  They don’t really have Kindles but Ruby wants one!

I hope Chad is able to make it home without problems this evening.