A Lovely Spring Day

(Notice the sarcasm in my title? Read on to find out why)

For the past 10 days I've been suffering from and then recovering from some kind of flu bug, then two days ago I threw out my left knee and pinched a nerve or something in my lower back. Talk about feeling crippled and sick. I was a mess. I've been dealing with hip dysplasia symptoms for several years so I take glucosamine chondroitin and fish oil on a daily basis and that seems to work well for me.
I usually move quite freely and pain-free.
So I should have known, by listening to the way my body responds to barometric pressure, that something was indeed not quite right.

Wednesday started off sunny and warm. No cause for alarm. The peach tree had little flowers popping out and the apple trees are budding. My daffodils were blooming bright and yellow. A happy sign of friendship.
The animals browsed calmly across the paddock.
Cataleya even took a dustbath in the sunshine
Now here's a cause for alarm. A squirrel we have never seen before hopped up onto the feeders and stuffed her pouches full of sunflower seeds. A wind started to blow.
When her cheeks were about to burst she ran up into our pasture into a tree where we believe she may have a nest and babies. Why such serious and desperate hording? It reminded me of the way southerners rush to the store when they hear a hurricane or a bad storm is coming, and buy all the bread and milk. The wind blew stronger and colder.....
A few snowflakes started falling while the wind blew harder. (photo take from our back balcony, looking west)
And the snow blew thicker and faster. A very wet snow with thick wet flakes. (photo taken from our front balcony, looking east)
The birds flew off and into shelter into the trees.
John rushed up into the barn and herded all the animals inside. He spent 20 minutes trying to convince Baby Doll, our horse, to come into the barn, too, but she was too worked up. John and I communicated via Walkie Talkies trying to come up with a plan, but finally decided that letting her stay in her paddock, in the protection of the trees as a wind and snow block would be ok and he loaded her up with hay. Then he locked up the gates for the night. Can you see him just to the left of Catlinite, our white llama?
Frustrating seeing the hawk netting getting weighed down by the heavy wet snow. I had to come out several times throughout the night to knock the snow off with a broom.
The chickens didn't figure out to go INSIDE the henhouse. Thankfully we planned the henhouse to have a covered area underneath for protection from weather, possible predators that may sneak in, and for additional shade.
But I still wanted my girls to get inside and be cozy, dry and warm. One of my Rhode Island Reds, Rhoda (don't laugh) walked up to me first.
Then she tried to get her lady friends to follow her. Thankfully, all of our girls are tame and allowed me to quickly pick them up and pop them into their house for the night. They seemed very relieved to be in their cozy house, too.

Then I happened to walk by the planter filled with blooming daffodils.
Is that the saddest thing, to see Spring Daffodils covered in cold, wet snow?