Before and After

~Yesterday~

 Snow on the windows!

  Fluffy white trees and snow blowing everywhere...

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 You can see the bumpy drifts all over the hill!!

 Terrible weather for the cows
because their feed gets covered with snow and then they don't eat. 

Milk production was down, but thank goodness we 

didn't get any DA's (Displaced Abomasum).

 Our poor old barn lost a lot of it's shingles.

  Janelle and our dog Jess came in from playing outside 

(only little children enjoy playing in weather like this)!

~Today at Sunrise~

Don't let the sunshine deceive you.... it was not warm. 

Gusty, driving North winds created a wind chill of -4 degrees.

 Look at all the drifts!!

 It took my dad probably 2 1/2 hours to remove the snow
from the driveway and from the lane where the cows walk. 

(luckily he has a skid-steer that he can use to plow the snow with)

Although I had everything set up to milk,
I wasn't able to start milking until 9:20!!!!! (the usual starting time is 8a.m.)

 "Waves upon troubled shores..."

The FREEWAY, I-94, was closed from Hudson, WI to Tomah, WI.
Minnesota was just as bad. 

There weren't any emergency vehicles
of any kind out on the roads. 

So it was the wrong night to have something serious go wrong.

 

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas...
may your yards be white... 

from  now on the snow will be piled high..."