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<\/p>\nMy sister called me tonight to remind me that we are under a winter storm warning, the first of the season. We’ve had a couple of inches of snow before this, but it all melted.\u00a0 Now it’s snowing and blowing big time.\u00a0 It’s gorgeous; big flakes, all sparkly and fluffy, whirling here and there, piling up.\u00a0 We’re supposed to get six inches with wind.<\/p>\n
But, luckily, yesterday and the day before were on the weekend and David was home.\u00a0 So the two of us got busy and did a lot of our pre-winter winter getting ready stuff.\u00a0 Friday he hauled 100 square bales of hay with the help of our good friend Jim Bonnette.\u00a0 And they stacked and tarped them nicely.\u00a0 We also cut firewood.<\/p>\n
Saturday, we backed the pickup to the pile and started splitting wood.\u00a0 We split a load, then David drives it around back of the house, backs up to the walk-out of the basement, then tosses the wood up onto the porch, to me, and I throw it in a pile next to the house logs.\u00a0 Of course, the floor and logs are protected by old sheets of plywood and OSB.<\/p>\n
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We did that most of yesterday, watching the pile grow.\u00a0 Then toward dark, we grabbed some steel T posts and went to pound posts in the new pheasant pen and where the donkey corral will be enlarged to twice its present size.\u00a0 I’d been putting it off, but the temperatures have suddenly dropped drastically.\u00a0 Like the HIGH for the next week will be something like 9 degrees.\u00a0 You don’t want to know what the LOW is going to be!\u00a0 That equals FROST in the ground.\u00a0 And when that happens it is nearly impossible to pound steel posts.<\/p>\n
Oops.\u00a0 We waited a couple days too long.\u00a0 It was a brutal job.\u00a0 We got seven in and both of us ran out of steam.\u00a0 David is fighting a long lasting cold and just ran out of energy.\u00a0 We quit and tonight in the snow, finished the last two posts.\u00a0 Luckily, we found a grassy spot where they pounded down fairly well.\u00a0 Except the rocks they hit.\u00a0 Oh well, it’s done.<\/p>\n
So by flashlight, we gathered tools we might lose in the snow (like for all winter), picked up coiled garden hoses and went in the house with snow swirling around us.\u00a0 Four inches, already.<\/p>\n
I went out onto the porch and grabbed an armload of our split firewood, all nice and dry.\u00a0 After poking up the fire,I added a couple of sticks and watched it catch.\u00a0 Oh, how nice it is that we got that wood up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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