Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[Ridgetop]

Sad they are back on again since we know how it will end. On the other hand, the kids give him the family he should have had. Bad life choices impact family as well.

 

[farmerjan]

Back in the house... Went up to do the cow and it started to snow about 1.... came down real good for a bit... little stuff then big fat flakes. Got the road covered in spots. It was slushy to go up to the pasture and that was good as the tires "ate down" into the softer snow... and will make tracks to stay in if it does get alot colder... but it will continue to melt and run down the driveway and all the places there is a little slope.
The 4 calves were in the barn, some wet on their backs so decided to come in when the snow started. Fed grain and the cow was down at a hay pile... where there was a roll that they must've really liked as it was pretty much gone... most of the beef cows were at the other roll that is 2/3 gone... She came to the barn when I called and came in... had already put the grain in and calves were eating on one side and the cow came in the gate on "her side" and went right to eating at her place... I put a full sq. bale of hay in the bunk in several places so they can all eat without fighting. Left them in although the calves can go out if they want. The black one will go out to his mother to nurse sometime...

It has not gotten as cold as quick as I thought... was 39 when the recording thermometer reset (like 1 or 2 a.m.) and has dropped over the course of the day... but is still holding at 34, so still melting out there... It is still snowing a little but tapering off. Radar shows it stopping like around 5-6 or so... maybe some snow continuing in the western portions into WVa..... and temps dropping. But for now, will gladly take the above freezing melting still going on.

Going in to see about baking something maybe... then a movie and working on some more sorting?

DS called to see if stove was working okay... and said that Jason wanted to cancel the vet check Wed since it was going to be sooo cold... he said they are still going to pull off a bunch of bigger calves and sell Friday... then maybe try to get them preg checked the following week... it is supposed to get back into the 40's....Not my call... really don't care at this point.
I asked DS if he would be willing to go do the 500 cow herd.... they have heat in the parlor... He said it will be cold but if they wanted to, it would be okay... Have to do Wed since I am not cancelling my chiropractor appt Tuesday. We'll see... I will call the farm in the morning...

Looked outside and see breaks of blue so the snow is about over... maybe got 1 inch ...

 

[Mini Horses]

Warm and misty "rain" here. Rare to see a strip of snow anywhere. BUT the darned cold is coming M-F

 

[farmerjan]

Yep, temps dropping... down to 28 now... BUT, the snow, everything "precip", was gone by 4 so not much of anything. Turning colder... not my idea of fun either... Maybe it won't get as bad as they predict

 

[Mike CHS]

What snow that we got is all gone but it is going to be down in the single digits tonight here.

 

[farmerjan]

Temps have dropped to 22 so far..
Heard an owl outside tonight for about 15 minutes...

We still have snow from that 5-6 inches with all the ice on top... but the snow from today was nothing... doubt it was 1/2 to 1 inch... can't tell there was any on the roads or anything.. The rest was slushy all day so that was good... but it will be hard as a rock now...

Saw an E-mail from our gen mgr... another tester is gone... she passed away last week. She had pancreatic cancer.... had quit testing this past year... so very sad... I knew her from before I started testing.... she tested on 2 different farms I milked on before the wreck in 1989.... She was 6 months older than me...