Like some great cosmic joke, Mother Nature has been leading us into complacency, that comfortable slide into conlcuding "Hey, this winter has not been bad at all"
Ha! Granted, we did not have 23 days of high winds like last November-we all remember that I am sure, it was downright miserable. We've been fortunate to have relatively mild temperatures, with little snowfall to complain about. A bit of fog here and there, but honestly, it's been great-mild, decent footing for horses, not too cold.
So last week we had a small snow storm move through. It dropped maybe three or four inches at my place but almost nothing here at work. This last Friday and Saturday (and Sunday too) we got one of our bigger snowfalls. I got about eight inches at home, with nearly a foot at work, and reports vary from several feet to three inches elsewhere-depending on the whims of Mother Nature. Yesterday afternoon my snow plowing guy showed up....I knew there was no way I was going to try to plow using the four wheeler-too wet (which makes for too heavy) and too deep. I would have been out there for hours, wallowing around on that, just too much work for the wheeler. It took the plow guy two hours (two hours!!!) to clean up the driveways, parking spots, around the barn, the arena, the trailers. Normally this is an hour, hour and ten minutes job. As he was finishing, it was still snowing. Only yesterday afternoon what was falling was very powdery.
Sure enough, when I checked the thermometer, it was just 13 degrees around 4 pm. This morning, it was -3. It is -6 here at work. And we are slated for even colder tonight. Last night, I fed out extra hay of course, and this morning too. And even more this evening, with lots of munchie hay to keep them warm and busy overnight. And of course everyone will enjoy a warm mash. Not a hint of shivers from anyone either, for which I am thankful.
To recap-we went from temps in the mid 30s, to heavy snow, to cold. In four days. To mangle a phrase from an old commercial: It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.....but it isn't nice for Mother Nature to fool with us, lol!
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We are still waiting here for the "other shoe to drop" snow Nov11 then warmish and all the snow is gone , but Son of a Buck! the wind is terrible it will blow your hair off! Forecast is to drop from averages of + 3-10celcius(41 ish) to -10 celsius(-2) by Friday a little snow in the forecast. Weird weather for here in Alberta
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