Baymule’s Farm

Monday morning, it’s quiet, took girls and their dogs to meet their parents at my sister’s house yesterday. We had a fun week, weather was cold, but sunny days made it nice. Girls had a great time. Mud to stomp in, ice on sheep water buckets to break, bottle lamb to feed, sheep to pet, 3 ewes had lambs and they got to watch twins being born. They held lambs while I ear tagged them and gave a CDT shot. They helped me castrate 2 ram lambs and we had a lively discussion on that. I made pan sausage and smoked link sausage for them to take home. They built their gingerbread houses, their dog ate the first 2, they ate the third one. We had pumpkin pie for breakfast and hot chocolate with marshmallows. They ate all their meals in the floor in front of the TV, watching cartoons. They dropped food, Carson licked it up, I really need to mop the floor. It was a fantastic week.

It’s cold this week, I cut my water off yesterday evening to avoid busted pipes. Tomorrow we are supposed to get ice and snow. No big deal to most of you, but here, everything shuts down. We have no snow equipment, a few chemical spraying trucks, a few sanding trucks and no way to cover the miles and miles of roads. Houston news is reveling in the oncoming disaster that the possibility of 1to 6 inches of ice and snow. Stock up on necessities, bring pets inside, cover plants, hunker down and stay off roads. No school!

I’ll go to the post office this morning to mail off some bills, then back home. The disaster storm is supposed to strike tonight. The best part is our snow events usually melt and are gone in 3-4 days. I have ewes that are due, maybe they will suck it up and gold those babies until the weather improves, maybe not. Whatever, we’ll be ok.

Much of the country is having very cold weather, lots of snow and ice and Texas is like a little girl screaming at the mere sight of a spider. Sigh…….

Just hunker down. You don't usually get Our winter weather, But...this, too, shall pass.

WOW. We have ZERO snow here. We got an inch 2 times. It melted last week. Now we have 3 days of zero and subzero nights. Brr. But back to 30 by mid-week. Such an odd winter.

We haven't had any snow either and we usually get it.

AMKuska said:

We haven't had any snow either and we usually get it.

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Same. We usually get some snow by now, but have gotten none so far! If we can get through February with no snow I will be amazed! It is surely cold enough for snow, but we haven't had rain during this cold snap.

Dahlia said:

Same. We usually get some snow by now, but have gotten none so far! If we can get through February with no snow I will be amazed! It is surely cold enough for snow, but we haven't had rain during this cold snap.

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Yet it is coming. The mountains are way over the usual snow fall. I’m hoping it stays in the mountains .

I’ll be boiling water this morning. I carry 2 buckets half full, because I can’t carry a full bucket. But at least that way, boiling water doesn’t slosh out on me.

Houston is snowed in, still snowing. It seems to have missed me. There was a little on the porch when I let Carson out to go potty and he was right back scratching at the door! He went straight to the propane heater and laid down in front of it. AAAHHHH…….

A flashlight scan did not reveal a white wonderland. There is probably some scattered snow on the fields, but the snowstorm seems to have missed me. I’m ok with that.

Newscaster is explaining how and why overpasses freeze. People who don’t experience ice and snow in their lives have to be educated. LOL It’s like a course on ice and snow 101 How Not To Wreck Your Car And Kill Yourself.

I’ve had a cup of coffee, on my second cup.

It’s starting to get daylight. I’m sacrificing some of my “house water” to get a couple of pots boiling so I can get an early start. Then I’ll bust ice in the big black tub outside and bring it in the house to heat up.

I poked my head out the back door and there are some patches of snow. Maybe I could throw a snowball at…… nobody. Sometimes you just gotta have fun by yourself.

we have a light dusting of fresh snow, but now the sun is out so that will probably not stick for too long even if it is too cold to actually melt a lot of it will sublimate.

When DH and I drove home from New Orleans about a decade ago from our first cruise, it was very cold in Louisiana and every bridge was ice covered. I would take my foot off of the gas pedal right before each bridge and coast, something we northerners in counties/states like Champaign/Illinois have learned to do bc our County and State doesn't want to spend money on deicing until After we have bad winter weather.
When DH and DD and I went to spend January 1, 2001 in Colorado, we had a room at a motel in Idaho Springs. We had spent the day in Denver and a storm was moving in. We drove west and exiting shortly before the police closed off I-70. When we got to the motel there was one spot to park--there were no vacancies. We were Very happy to snuggle into the sheets and blankets and sleep late the next morning, which was New Year's Eve.
We already had a reservation at a Denver hotel for that night and were able to watch fireworks from our 14th floor room window.
ALL roads were cleared by noon the next day. Colorado Rockies has a large supply of snow removal trucks and they Keep everything cleared and open during the winter.
If you haven't been there, after a snowstorm, if the sun comes out, the snow starts to evaporate even if the temperatures don't go above freezing.

I carried 2 rounds of boiling water to the sheep and stirred up some Ice Slab Soup for them!