Enough Already!!!!

 

It started yesterday afternoon…….

 

Do you see Apache in the barn?

Poor Apache. The day after dealing with all that dentistry and vaccination stuff, she has to deal with wind, cold and snow. And I can’t even be up there with her to keep her company for fear I might fall again. bah!

Yesterday was the first day that the chickens’ coop was completely snow-free in weeks.

That didn’t last long. sigh.

 

Everyone keeps telling me that Spring is here or is on it’s way.

This is what greeted me when I looked out the windows this morning. The view onto my bedroom balcony.

 

In my world, it sure is difficult to imagine that Spring is here or is on it’s way.

The view up to the barn from my bathroom window.

 

The view looking down from my daughter’s bedroom. Poor chickens will be stuck inside today.

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The view out onto our loft balcony. Another heavy, wet snow. The folks who had dried up wells last summer, should be much happier this year.

I gimped downstairs to let Dobbie outside and go potty. This is the view out the front door. Yeh. It’s pretty. I’m just glad that our peach and apple trees haven’t bloomed yet. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for the rest of this winter/spring season. A couple years ago, everything had bloomed in our orchard and then we got hit by a Memorial Day hail and snow storm. You just never know what the weather will bring up here.

Dobbie girl is not a winter weather pooch. She goes outside to do her business and then wants right back in. Tucked under the blankets, plastered against my side like a second-skin, is where she prefers to be.

Poor chickens personify the term: “All Cooped Up”

I know many folks are planning and preparing their gardens. Some lucky ones are even planting, burying their hands into dark, rich, earth.

Around here, the plants are just trying to stay upright under all the weight.

It’s ironic that a couple months ago, my 3 kidlets were out in this little backyard building a snowman. I remember as a child, growing up in California and then Maryland, how excited I was when it snowed. All my kidlets talk about now is when will summer be here, so they can play outside without shoes and heavy coats. They get up in the morning, look out the window at the snow-covered ground and say, “Not again”.

  

 

Humor is good at a time like this.

 

 

I’m grateful that Ranchman John is home now to take care of all the critters for us, but Jenna and I miss going to the barn and hanging out, too.

I wonder if Apache misses us, too.

These are our snow stats thus far:

Laughing Orca Ranch Snow Stats

First Snow Fall of the Year:

October 22, 2007
October 14, 2008
October 28, 2009

Last Snow Fall of the Year:
May 23, 2007
April 12, 2009
TBA 2010

Snow Posts in 2007/08~ 24

Snow Posts in 2008/09~ 14

Snow Posts in 2009/10~ 33 so far

Not all of this year’s snow falls left behind significant precipitation. Some were just light flurries with no accumulation on the ground. But still…….

                             Enough Already!!!!!!

 

Oh, and yes, it’s still snowing. The weather folks promise us that we can expect more snowfall throughout the day and into Sunday……..hooray.