Remember a few weeks back when I posted about wanting....even needing....snow?
Ut-oh. I should not have said that out loud! This past weekend we were completely dumped on by a massive blizzard. Over 2 feet of snow blanketed the ground by Saturday morning with some drifts well over 5 feet high! It took us 11 hours (eleven!) to clear all the snow away from the barn, paddocks, driveway, house, roof.........I am so sore!
I went out on Saturday morning to feed the horses at 8:30am, and didn't actually get to feeding them until 10:00am. We had to shovel our way down!
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| My husband helping shovel a path to the barn. |
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| The side of the house (water spigot access) |
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| Snow drifts at the back of the house and on the roof. |
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| One of the remaining sections of stockade fence (Sandy took down most of them). This is a six foot fence! |
I finally made it down to the barn and decided to shovel around the horse trailer before feeding the crew.
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| Snow bank behind the trailer. Had to move all this by hand! |
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| Side of the barn. |
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| Back of the barn. Not going outside today! |
So I finally get inside to clean their stalls and feed them. Here they are, happily munching on breakfast without a care in the world......
It had not stopped snowing by midday, so I wasn't about to break out the snow blower until the wind died down and the snow stopped. After chores I took a walk around the property to see the beautiful (cold, nasty, heavy, disgusting) blanket of snow.
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| There's a car under there somewhere... |
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| Truck is buried. |
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| Front of the house |
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| View of the barn and Daatje's paddock |
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| Wicked tall bank at the end of the driveway! |
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| Looking down Laura Ln |
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| My ornamental cherry tree |
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| Under the trees in the front yard as seen from the street |
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| Looking up Laura Ln |
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| Little blue house on the hill. <3 |
Needless to say, I didn't get to ride this past weekend. It took the better part of both Saturday and Sunday to clear everything out. I did manage to squeeze in snowshoeing on Sunday evening, just before the sun went down. I have some pictures.....more on that later. :)
Moral of the story.....never, ever complain out loud in the woods, where the weather gods can hear you, about not having any snow! :o
WOW!! That's a LOT of snow! I've never seen more than a foot of snow lol. And our snow never sticks around more than a day or two. I hope yours melts soon.
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