Still more snow! And a bit of freezing rain...

It's been snowing since early yesterday with a brief break late last night for freezing rain. I measured the snow on our patio table early this morning and we had 8" of snow with an inch of ice on top of that. Pretty amazing for us. Tonight it's snowing again and the weatherman isn't predicting a warm up until at least Wednesday.


We were getting low on grass hay so Doug picked some up yesterday afternoon. Unloading hay is definitely more challenging when it's snowing...

UNTYING THE TARP

UNLOADING (WITH HELP?)

We eventually had to unload the hay onto our small truck and ferry it around the property in batches because the snow drifts prevented us from getting the big truck and flatbed trailer into close to the barns...

Fortunately the sheep are loving the snow and while all of them have access to barns or shelters, many of them have been choosing to sleep outside. Below is a picture of Javier, one of our yearling rams. He wasn't the least bit bothered by the heavy snow but his pals were holed up in their shelter. Guess it's really perfect weather for a sheep in full fleece.

More later...