{"id":2793,"date":"2012-12-11T12:59:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2012-12-11T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:59:02","slug":"we-got-snow-but-dodged-the-big-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/12\/11\/we-got-snow-but-dodged-the-big-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"We got snow, but dodged the big storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Up to 12 inches of new snow was forecast for us. We check our weather radio every morning as that often dictates what we’ll be doing. And since we were hearing about a big storm headed directly for us, classed as a winter storm warning, we hustled around to get ready for it.<\/p>\n

First, we hauled big round bales out to all the pastures that could use more hay. Then we filled all of the stock tanks and started up the heaters so the ice in them would all melt away. We spent nearly a whole day running water here, there, and everywhere, and drained the hoses so they wouldn’t freeze in-between tanks.<\/p>\n

While Will was finishing that up, I got the wheelbarrow and went out to the wood shed and hauled in two wheelbarrow loads of split wood and filled the two wood boxes. Then I got the third — just in case. Of course, we have more than three cords right on the enclosed back porch, but that’s our “emergency” wood and this was just going to be a storm.<\/p>\n

I bedded all the animals well with hay and added new shavings to the chicken coop floor and nest boxes. Then I hauled extra hay in to all the animal pens by the house including the goat cottage down by the garden. (It’s a lot easier to haul hay when it’s NOT blizzarding!) I also added an extra bucket of feed to the chicken feeder.<\/p>\n

Will hooked the snowplow to the 4×4 truck and I brought the scoop shovel up to the front door and parked the Subaru out of the way of the plow truck, yet still near the house.<\/p>\n

I’d just bought grain, so we were fine there. I tucked extra hay in our wolf dog, Yukon’s, houses (he has two!) and gave him some extra dry food. He just wanted to play with me. Yukon looks like a wolf but acts like a dog. He’s such a suck-up! He’ll do anything to please and loves showing off his “tricks” such as jumping up on the dog house roofs, sitting, and lying down.<\/p>\n

Then it started snowing. A few floating flakes, then more. It snowed all evening, night, and the next day. But we only ended up with six inches and it didn’t blow. This morning, the sun came out and it was real pretty. No, we didn’t get “the” storm, it went south and east of us. But we were sure glad we were prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Up to 12 inches of new snow was forecast for us. We check our weather radio every morning as that often dictates what we’ll be doing. And since we were hearing about a big storm headed directly for us, classed as a winter storm warning, we hustled around to get ready for it. First, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}