We’ve definitely had a very fickle spring this year… Warm up for a couple days, snow several inches, repeat weekly.
Second day of the most recent snowfall. It was actually deeper, but some melted off the bottom during the day.
And finally, some blue sky! Here’s to hoping spring-like weather shows up soon…
Had our first hard frost of the fall last night; it actually got cold enough to freeze the puddles and leave a thin sheet on the water buckets. It snowed about an inch the night before, then the sky cleared…
Found this poor guy hiding on a fence post – he must have been freezing! (pun not intended).
Icicle edition!
Still some moisture in the ground, but not very much. Got down to 14ºF last night. Dogs were very happy to sleep inside for the night, could hardly yard them outside to do their business before bed. “Do we have to? Can’t we just come wake you up at 2 am, when we really have to go?”
I think that Nick was really glad for his padded stable blanket last night. I meant to go break the layer of ice that had no doubt formed in his bucket since doing my evening chores before going to bed, but I was so sleepy that I plumb forgot, so this is what his bucket looked like this morning.
The preferred weapon of choice for the occasion of ice chopping.
Happy anniversary to the Sunday Stills Challenge! It’s been a year, to the day, actually, since the day that everybody first sent in their pictures. The weather was exactly like this, cold and dry and frosty in the morning. I remember taking the dogs up to play in the House Field and how excited I was about the first challenge. Hasn’t worn off yet – I still look forward to them every week.
I had so many that I decided to put them in a little gallery thing so I wouldn’t be stuck uploading them in case the power went out again like earlier this morning. Clicking on the pictures should make them bigger…
I’m taking a page out of Linda’s book and posting more often…
For once the weather people are actually calling the weather correctly. They’re calling for possible snow – maybe an inch of accumulation – tonight and tomorrow, and lows in the teens for a couple days before it is supposedly going to warm up and return to rain. The thermometer on the porch says 28º F. Brrr! Luckily we’re out of the east wind, so the cold doesn’t just instantly cut through your clothes. I’ve been practically living in my down vest and scarf since it started freezing pretty hard a night! Luckily there’s hardly any ice to break, it’s still thin enough for the animals to break.
Took the dogs up in the field for a Sunday Stills “photo shoot” and they had a blast. So much to sniff, especially since the coyotes were out and about last night and yipping like crazy.
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Trapper Creek Daughter 