Blizzard Day

We woke up around 430 am to no electricity.  The rain was turning to snow and I remembered I left the vents open in the greenhouse...where over half our chicks are.  Dude got up and made sure they were closed.  He figured the power would come back on with no issues.  It didn't. When we got up later our concern were our animals.  The goats were fine but we had to get our brand new turkey chicks in the house.  One was dead and the other two were well on their way to expiring. We brought them in the house and my brother-in-law set to work on bringing them back to life.

We have a gas stove so while they babysat chicks, my sister and I cooked breakfast.  The woodstove was started up and went all day keeping us toasty-warm.

Pat cooking up a wonderful breakfast!

Someone perked up.

We made good of the day playing in the snow or making cards and started a quilted wall hanging.

Yes, the snow is that high!

Later we went out to see how deep the snow was ...and it was the drifts that were high.  The drifts are four foot high.

But on top of all that snow was ice.

Dude made his way to the goat barn.

He was able to get to the baby goats but never did make it to the boys - Angelo and Skippy are snowed in until tomorrow.

All in all it was a good day. We were all at home. We had some great meals, heat from the wood stove and great company. I am glad we did not have to go anywhere and all our families were safe and sound as well.

Round two of snow due on Saturday.