This winter, we have had more than our normal share of cold and snow. Don't get me wrong, I love snow, really, I do. And the cold ... it's not bad, especially if the sun makes an appearance now and again.
In fact, come to think of it, its the wind that has been bugging me. We have had a whole lot of wind. Until we had a thaw last week, we had snow drifts that were over my knees - because of the wind! We had a drift, a huge drift, that blocked the front door for 4 weeks.
We almost always use the garage door to enter and exit the house, so we didn't bother with shoveling the humongous drifts around the front door. The only ones it bothered were the dogs, and the County guy who drives the plow on our road who sank in that drift up to his butt when he came to check to make sure he was not going to plow up John's body - see John's post!
I ended up making paths through the snow from the garage door to the henhouse to the barn, and every time the darn wind blew, I had to forge through the new drifts all over again.
Because of the deep snow, our Colored Angora Goats had little reason to leave the barn. The chickens would barely leave their house unless it was to run to the barn. I have a lot of mucking out to do once all that chicken poop thaws, let me tell you! In the meantime, I put layers of straw and pine bedding on top of the poops in the henhouse.
For the moment, the snow is gone. It's cold, but so much easier to work outside.
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