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How are you all doing from under a blanket of snow?

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Not meaningless drivel, but where else to post the question.
Woke this a.m. to news of widespread snow across the USA in places where it isn't normally found - so how are you all coping? According to the weather map there is snow all the way south to the Texas border level, with a few clear patches spotted through the central areas.

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Our 3-6 inches of snow are coming to southern Tennessee on Friday. My daughter can't wait! Panic will hit the local grocery stores tomorrow morning...

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Good here. There was about 12 inches on the ground before sunrise, but by lunch it shrunk to 5 inches of surprisingly easy to shovel snow.

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We don't get much snow here either, but this week has been our week for winter - just an inch or so of snow and frosty - so pretty with mostly clear blue skies. It wouldn't have been so bad if more snow and then freezing rain hadn't fallen on top of the snow. I rang my husband before walking home on that, just in case I ended up with a sprained ankle half way. Actually it wasn't too bad as the rain turned to solid ice again - the half melted stuff is the worst!

Back to wet and windy on Sunday

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We are up to 9" total...it's a lovely, quiet and peaceful day.
In the past we've had livestock to tend no matter what the weather and although I miss those sweet goats, rabbits and chickens, we're happy to be able to stay indoors and relax during the worst of the winter weather these days.

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It all went south of us. We only got a dusting. The middle of the country stole our snow :)

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Our snow came and it's beautiful! After lunch my daughter will be out sledding with her dad. I hope it lasts all weekend!

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Meanwhile, in northern Minnesota we haven't had a snow worthy of the name yet this year.

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Right now, considering growing health concerns with my hubby, I'm seriously wishing I had fewer livestock. Trudging up the steep hills with buckets of water, for this many animals, to the barn, paddocks, & the muscovy run is truly NOT my idea of a good time. If we were 30yrs younger, no problem - but, we aren't, and I'm now trying to decide which 4leggers I will sell off, as soon as I get them chipped (to be compliant, for legal livestock sales). I love them. They're more pets to us, than 'livestock'. But, something has to give, and I'd prefer it wasn't me.

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5" of snow on top of ice early this week. Kids had a whole week of AMI and they are building snow igloo outside. I make sure birds big and small are fed.

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K Kaba

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Carla Burke wrote:Right now, considering growing health concerns with my hubby, I'm seriously wishing I had fewer livestock. Trudging up the steep hills with buckets of water, for this many animals, to the barn, paddocks, & the muscovy run is truly NOT my idea of a good time. If we were 30yrs younger, no problem - but, we aren't, and I'm now trying to decide which 4leggers I will sell off, as soon as I get them chipped, to be compliant, for legal livestock sales. I love them. They're more pets to us, than 'livestock'. But, something has to give, and I'd prefer it wasn't me.

The simplest path to that might be fewer critters. But it might also be worth musing about the current systems? Water storage locations, passive water heating, critter "winter home" options, maybe something wheeled to make a hill easier, or an afternoon of someone's time to change that hill. I dunno? But like you said, there's love there. And it's easy to get caught in answers that worked a decade ago that don't work now.

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K Kaba wrote:The simplest path to that might be fewer critters. But it might also be worth musing about the current systems? Water storage locations, passive water heating, critter "winter home" options, maybe something wheeled to make a hill easier, or an afternoon of someone's time to change that hill. I dunno? But like you said, there's love there. And it's easy to get caught in answers that worked a decade ago that don't work now.

Thank you for your kind thoughts. Our beautiful land - all 29acres of it, is ALL steep hills, ridges, & ravines. Leveling out the actual geology is impossible. I *am* also considering a 4wheeler of some sort, but there's a lot more $$ in that, than I have available, even used - at least what I've found, so far. I truly wish that 6yrs ago, when we bought this place, we had applied our brains more than our hearts. Word to the wise...

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We got about 5 inches. The grocery stores sold out of milk and bread before the snow began to fall. The whole town shut down. Snowmagedon. They do this every time the white stuff falls. Weird.

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