SBC/GW's Journal- Spring shows DONE! & Update

[Bruce]

You've had plenty of precip this year, I think you should just decline this time.

 

[farmerjan]

You've had plenty of precip this year, I think you should just decline this time.

Yeah, I agree with you @Bruce, they ought to just decline....

It looks like it is going to stay well south of us here now. Running much lower along the Va?NC line and across. 6-18 " of snow.... not much ice that I see, but that's going to be alot of snow. Hope you get as prepared as you can as I think you are right and will lose power. We were originally looking at 6-12 and then 3-5 and now just a dusting to maybe 3 if that. I'm not sorry.... and honestly DO NOT wish it on y'all further south.
Let us get through another week.... we have about 8 acres of LATE cut orchard grass on the ground that has been tedded twice and is dry. Will finish raking and bale tomorrow. Cut another 6 acres of it and about 6 acres of just pasture type grass hay today. Once this "system" goes through we should have about another 4-5 days of sun and dry and if so we can get this made. The little bit of snow they are saying we MIGHT get won't hurt it.
The stuff we made Thanksgiving week turned out pretty good. The one good thing is that it is more "dead" as in not actively growing, and the cold and frosts have caused most of the moisture to go out of the grass. So it doesn't need the same type of "sun" to dry it since there is not alot of moisture in the leaves of the grass.
But I hate making hay this late, we just need the square bales and these couple of fields had alot of growth that really needed to be cut.

 

[Mike CHS]

Ice is the one thing that pretty much shuts us down with our hills and curvy roads.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Ice isn't good anywhere and it'll turn those little hills back home into mountains like yours @Mike CHS ....if ya are slipping 15-20' from the bottom, it makes no difference how much further ya didn't climb..........but, I'd trade the mountains for the hills if the edge is approaching the sliding tires....

 

[Baymule]

Any kind of ice or snow shuts Texas down. We don't get enough of it to warrant the expensive removal equipment, so the smart people stay home. The desperate for their job people go to work, some make it, some don't. The idiots go play cowboy on ice and slam into the other people that are just trying to get to work. It looks like a demolition derby.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

No power this AM.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

No power this AM.

Have you got any heat source ? Hope you get power back on soon

 

[CntryBoy777]

Sure has been a highly unusual year weatherwise for y'all....hope ya get it back before long....

 

[Goat Whisperer]

We just got power back a few hours ago. We got 10+ inches of snow.

Yesterday morning I measured it at 7 inches, but snow was falling for several more hours and probably a few more inches. Then the rain/ice came, followed by about 3-4 more inches of snow this morning. First snow of the season was a real hit

@B&B Happy goats we have several kerosene heaters and plenty of fuel

 

[B&B Happy goats]

@Goat Whisperer I hit the like button because you finally have power ...but the having snow, ughhhh, so sorry for you guys....hope you didn't have to melt snow for water for the goats...have had to do that years ago...stay warm, be safe and i hope the nasty white blanket doesn’t come back ....ya should pat yourselfs on the back for having the heaters and kerosene...smart move