Ready or Not....... Shouldvknwnbetter- Fall

[Hens and Roos]

Looks like winter has finally arrived here by us... Friday into Sat morning we got 4.5 inches of snow with wind so blowing and drifting which made removal take longer...about 10 hours to get everything cleared. DH, DD and DS(17) went out and DS(13) and I stayed back to do chores and watch my great-niece for her parents. My great-niece will be 2 years old this Friday, she had fun hanging out with us and didn't want to leave!!

Pepper came back into heat and was rebred....looking like a June kidding for her...

DD is back to school-1st day of classes for her today. She went back Sunday mid-day but before she left DH ended up putting a new battery in her Jeep because it wouldn't start! Don't need her having problems at school.

We will be getting another round of snow today(just started here) into tomorrow, possibility for 6-11 inches so we will probably be making a trip out later today, depending on how much has fallen, to open up driveways and such. Schools that are West and North of us have closed today and others in the area are starting to close early today. IF the kids don't have school tomorrow they will be helping us with snow.

Have to go and pick up hay on Sat, will be getting 8 large square bales which hopefully will take us into May. Each bale is 700-800 pounds and lasts about 2 weeks. Hopefully these will be as dry and nice as the last 7 bales we picked up from the guy.

 

[Baymule]

More snow. 6-11 inches! Here we get 2-3 inches and everything shuts down!

 

[Mike CHS]

If we get flurries we shut down the roads on our hills.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Still snowing this morning and probably will for several more hours yet. DH is out with the plow opening up driveways, he figures we have at least 4 inches so far. Sounds like the storm shifted South some so we might end up with around 7 inches...

No school today for the boys. Looks like the majority of schools in the surrounding area closed today. Schools in more rural/hilly areas were closed yesterday as well-no point in taking the risk of an accident.

 

[Baymule]

If we get ANY snow here, everything shuts down. We have no equipment to handle it.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Here everyone wants to be cleared out and going right away We've had tenants in the past tell us to get a bigger truck so we could get their driveway cleared faster....never mind that the city plows hadn't gone through yet!!

 

[misfitmorgan]

Here everyone wants to be cleared out and going right away We've had tenants in the past tell us to get a bigger truck so we could get their driveway cleared faster....never mind that the city plows hadn't gone through yet!!

People do the same thing here. The plows havn't gone yet...oh well. Then they get stuck on the road or in the ditch

 

[Hens and Roos]

Hard to believe that we were at -26* actual temperature last week Wednesday with -45* wind chill and today we are at 26*! Our temperature was in the high 30's low 40's over the weekend so most of our snow melted and we have frozen puddles sitting in our yard as the ground is frozen....

today we hand scrapped/shoveled sidewalks to clear the frozen ice/snow mix that came through last night/early this morning, there was just enough that it had to be cleared but not enough to use our equipment...it would have gone right over the top without picking it up! According to the weather, we will get more frozen rain/snow mix again tonight into tomorrow

 

[Bruce]

Yeah yesterday was fun, got into the 40's both Mon and Tues. Made for some really nice ice to slide on out to the cars and down to the barn. Passable with the addition of some sand. Supposed to get over 40° again tomorrow (after some snow and or freezing rain tonight) and stay above freezing until Friday afternoon before it drops down to a high of 15° to 20° Sat and Sun.

 

[Hens and Roos]

second round of freezing rain here today...our road and driveway are iced over...it's supposed to change over to snow this afternoon and be finished around 7 pm tonight and moving east...then the fun of clearing everything will start we will see if any of the salting we did helps.

No school today for DS(17) and DS(13)...thinking this is the first year in many that they have had so many days off, the school district built in 3 extra days and they have used them all as of today.