Posted by billonthefarm on March 29, 2009 at 18:34:30 from (205.161.2.144):
It seems like the longest winter in memory. We had snow that stayed on the ground and we had to deal with for months, the worst ice storm in memory, the coldest weather in 20 years, a power outage when it was 12 below zero one night after it had been off for 36 hours earlier in the week and now a snow storm at the end of march. We had 6 inches of snow last night according to the weather service and what a mess. Some places the ground was nearly bare others the snow was really piled up. It started raining noon on saturday and then turned to snow and that tapered off about daylight. So this morning we had wet sloppy snow drifts on top of mud.
The first thing was to clean out the dog kennels. This is the most snow I have ever seen in them. The wind must have been very strong and out of a unusual direction last night. It was a good thing I had help or I would have been a hour scooping around the kennels and in the shed. The snow was very very heavy and wanted to stick to the shovel. It was like scooping wet sand.
After everything was squared away at home wrigley and I went to the Higgs farm. I waited till later to go than normal but there was still no sign of the snow plows. No problems getting there really. There was one set of tracks on the road and it looked like they didnt have 4 wheel drive and they had some problems. First thing I open the door and look into the cow lot and of course bunks full of snow.
So after I scoop that out I open the door and look into the lot with the calves and you guessed it. More snow in the feed bunks. The bad part was if you walked off of the concrete you werent only standing in knee deep snow but you were in 6 inches of mud under that.
I think these guys are tired of winter too.
I took this picture one day last week doing morning chores. It was warm the grass was greening up and the ground was drying out finally.
Things looked a little different this morning.
With both snowblowers unhooked and the tractors that run them set up to do other jobs I had to use plan b to move snow. I sure did miss a nice warm cab.
The snow didnt help my little field of unharvested corn any either.
By dark this evening most of the snow was gone. It warmed up into the lower 40's and actually the snow was melting first thing this morning. When the sun came out it really sped it up this afternoon. The ditches are full and the creeks are out of there banks again. I hope this is winters last effort to hang around because I think we all are ready for spring! bill
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