It is cold, it is very cold in fact. Now if you are from somewhere where is often really cold and it snows all the time you will laugh and say "That's not snow" or "You think this is cold?" I understand but when you are use to rain and temperatures around 40 or 50 degrees in winter you might agree that this is cold for us.
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| Elinor |
Yesterday
morning we woke to no snow it was cold as it has been for several days
so nothing seemed unusual. School was scheduled for a 2 hour delay since
the foot hills did have some snow and roads were icy. Within an hour
though the snow began to fall at a steady rate and started to pile up,
school became canceled and thus the snow day began.
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| Ruth & Zora |
The snow does not concern the sheep in the least. It does make finding the grass a bit difficult so they use their noses like plows and snuffle through the snow in search of the green grass below. This makes their appearance rather amusing since the snow sticks to the wool on their faces. They almost look like they have snow beards.
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| Elinor |
The falling snow leaves a thin blanket of snow on their backs and the tips of their fleeces freeze. However the snow and ice don't reach far into their fleeces, leaving them toasty and warm.
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| Esther |
The snow we currently have is a nice dry powder. Unlike the wet sticky snow we typically get in the valley when it snows. However it does have it inconveniences. Though the water pipes haven't frozen the hose did freeze meaning having to haul water to the barn and field. As I went out last night to water and feed I found that with the help of the wind we had yesterday the snow had blown into the barn leaving an inch of snow on the floor and a good amount on the hay.
