Day 32: I wish the weather would make up its mind!

Howdy everybody!

Well, a nice surprise this morning for once. It was snowing when I went to bed last night so I had my alarm set for 5:15am when I usually wait for my Dad to call me to give me an update. Mainly because the farm is up in a valley and at a higher elevation then the main part of town where all the driveways we have to clear are. So since I knew it was snowing I just got up when my alarm went off and got dressed and looked out the window. There was still snow on the patio where I had shoveled the day before. So I sat at my computer and waited for the phone call. Finally my Dad phoned around 5:25am. Appearantly it had been raining in town most of the night as the temp went as high as 4 degrees above freezing. And all the snow from the night before had melted, and he told me to go back to bed. You have no idea how good it feels to get back into bed and snuggle down into the nice warm covers after expecting to have to go out in the freezing cold and shovel snow at 5am.

So I woke up after 8. Mike called me and asked me if it was snowing up at the farm. Which it wasn;t, but it was raining really good. He said he was going to come up to clear the driveway now that it stopped snowing. So I got up to feed the horses. But I had to keep the dogs inside if Mike was coming to clear the driveway. So I went and put the collars on and gave them their rice and shoveled out their crap from the night. I went back out and huge flakes of wet snow were coming down! I was like “Come on, make up your mind already!” lol. Mike showed up pretty soon after that. It ended up taking him almost 2 and a half hours to clear everything because the snow was so heavey after the sudden rise in tempurature. After he finished my plan was to run to town to get some beer and a few groceries to keep me good till Sunday when the owners get back. After my 5th attempt at trying to get out of the stupid driveway Mike offered to run me into town.

I got him to drop me off at my Grandparents house which is on the way to town since Mike was late for work. I visited there for a little bit and then my Mom ran me to the grocery store. After getting a call from my Dad I met him at one of the driveways we have to clear when it snows. He was scraping off slush off of the sidewalks and driveway of the apartment complex because now it got all warm and everything started melting, and then its supposed to drop to 11 degrees below freezing starting tonight and everything is going to turn to ice. Once again, I wish the weather would make up its damn mind. Either stay warm or stay cold. Dont keep going back and forth. So anyways after I was done in town and helping my Dad finish the driveway he drove me back up to the farm and had a beer with me.

After he left I had to dig out the snow that was infront of the gates from the plow clearing the driveway so I could shut them and let the dogs out. After that I went to collect the eggs. As I was on my way there I heard a loud rumbling sound. Sunndely it clicked in my brain that it was snow sliding off of a roof. So I just ran away from the barn cause I didnt know where it was coming from. Turns out it was sliding off of the sheet metal roof over the chicken coop and all the snow on the roof slid into their pen. So I went in to make sure no chickens were buried. All were accounted for execpt 3 chickens that were on the other side of the huge pile of snow standing in over a foot of undisturbed snow. I assumed they were stuck so I picked each one up and carried them to the door of the coop and put them down and they went inside. No hearts floated above their head after I put them down though, kind of disappointing lol. But at least they were all ok. Got 14 eggs today.

The rest of the day I spent relaxing and cooking some supper. Nothing special. Just some Kraft Dinner. I just got in about 45 mins ago from putting the dogs in for the night and feeding the horses. There is snow in the forcast but only a 40% chance and just light flurries. So hopefully I won’t have to go shovel tomorrow.

On a last note while I was outside feeding the horses and such I noticed the epic icicle that had formed on the back corner of the dog shed. So i took a picture of it. It was close to 3ft long..maybe even more I didn;t have a tape measure. And it fell off just seconds after snapping the picture. So managed to get the pic just in time. Hope you like it!

Thanks for reading and make sure to check in tomorrow for day 32’s exciting events!

Until next time,
Stay Frosty