Special Edition Part 2 The Snow Pictures

Welcome to SNOW day! My goal is to get to the barn and take care of the horses. This is a photo story of this afternoons adventure. I shoveled ,caught my breath, took a picture and repeat. Kept the camera warm and dry inside my coat. Thinking of the line from TAPS, "All is well, safely rest" If you enjoy my blogs please press the "follow" button.

That's the way to get there after this mornings shoveling is snowed over.

So far so good!

But all this left to do ugh!

Impressive pile, one for the record books! I'm getting there.

In! Feed these and through to open the other side and go feed the group out back, uh..... Sorry gang it will be a few minutes delayed.

One thing about shoveling snow, no one bothers you, and having work pile up is a sign of productivity.

O.K. So no one is going out today because I cant shovel the gates free too!

Somewhere past this drift there are hungry horses! This one chest high.

I made a path!

Scout happy to see me!

John sleepy and happy to eat!

Secret listens to the howling wind!

Daybreak says " Got More?"

I'm just grateful we are all home and warm and dry now.

All our friends here at Storybook Farm are too!

We had thunder and lightning snow,

we had blowing snow,

we have wet snow

we have fluffy snow. we have snow up

we have snow down

There is snow

all around!

Blizzard of 2011 Special Edition

Pretty landscapes are a distant thought until the dangers and effects of the blizzard are subdued

Here I am reporting to you from the Blizzard of 2011 Mansfield Ct. a bit frosty

Tim working at making a path passable in our driveway

Could use a bigger tractor in this battle

the eerie glow of his lights, now where do we put all that snow?

My effort to keep a one shovel width path to the house cleared filled in 2" in an hour

Somewhere over the snowpile our horse trailer

The January 12, 2011 Blizzard Special Edition Ct. Quiet Corner Storybook Farm Report

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9:30 a.m. it is still coming down. Hard to get an accurate total in windswept Mansfield Ct. but I think there is over 2 feet of snow so far, it is still coming down. Visibility is improved but still a reduced amount. The cold wind driven snow stings at the eyes.

I am in on a coffee and cooking break. I have all our horses, goats and the 2 rabbits fed and watered. It took a massive amount of shoveling just to accomplish that. The rest of the family is still out there. Most of the work at the dairy is done for the morning. My son drove to and from work on his tractor clearing his own way. Now he has our driveway passable for the short term and gone down the road to plow his Grandfather's driveway.

We are so grateful to the manufaturers of Carhart clothes! We just would hate to attempt a storm of this caliber without our Carhart Coats, sweatshirts and coveralls.