When we were putting all the animals up last night around 9:30 p.m., the snow was coming down steadily. Sometime overnight the wind came up and started hammering the snow in sideways. This morning every west-facing wall is covered in snow. I took the photo at dawn today.
You can see two of our horses, blind Cactus Jack (the gray one in the foreground) and Copper Kid, our wobbler, in their corral by Scout's Barn. They heard us let the dogs out and came over to remind us that they hadn't had breakfast yet.
When the wind drives snow in with this kind of force, all the gate latches are jammed tight and frozen. The hardest part about this morning's chores was just getting the gates to the corrals open!
(Click on photo for larger image.)
It was really cold with the wind chill out my way. I can't imagine having to work outside all day long! (Like you guys probably do, as well as my poor, poor husband) I hope you are finding ways to stay warm! :)
Posted by: Alicat | November 14, 2005 at 06:38 PM
Burrrrrr, it looks like it does here in Laramie! The snow never comes straight down here, always sideways like that. They say Chicago is the windy city, but we beg to differ.
Posted by: Mandy, Laramie, WY | November 14, 2005 at 06:20 PM
Whew, that's cold. And here we are still in a drought and 86 degrees today. We are supposed to get some cold air this week and have a low of 37!
Sorry to hear about Sugar. Such a surprise. At least there wasn't any suffering, and she was happy to the last second....
Posted by: Karen SA/TX | November 14, 2005 at 04:19 PM