Day 3 of being home due to weather. Day 3 of absolute productivity and projects getting done. And also day 3 of being completely pooped at the end of the day!
Madison is also pooped - from keeping the girls in snacks! If you know, you know!
Funny how different things look when the sun shines. I despise winter. I loathe being cold. But even I could appreciate the beauty of the sun shining through the ice, making everything seem bright and sparkly!
Of course my moment of appreciation lasted exactly one moment, and then Harper, Saige and I had to tackle adding more bedding, defrosting more water containers than I can count, carrying buckets into the house, defrosting them in the bathtub, and then returning to the barn so things could have drinks. Adjusting heat lamps, trying to make sure the critters had at least a small amount of comfort in the freezing cold.
Jim started and scraped off the vehicles. He and I will have to go to work tomorrow. The girls all have dental appointments, which Quincy is going to take them to, and then she has to go on to work. Year end taxes and paperwork cannot wait, and my house party is over I’m afraid.
I know right now they are cautioning people about wild birds, and advising you not to feed them due to not wanting to attract them due to bird flu. I just can’t not put feed out for them. They are hungry, it is cold, and everything outside is covered in a literal foot of snow. It is cruel to have something for them to eat and not give it to them I feel like. Plus, they have sort of come to expect it. They hang around the deck. They sort of feel like friends. I don’t want to let my friends down. And the red headed woodpecker - he might turn on me. You can’t trust him not to peck the house if his belly is empty!
I begged the girls to stand in one of the snow drifts. They refused. Harper did reluctantly agree to let me take a picture in front of one of the drifts - hard to get a grasp on how much snow there is out there! Some of the drifts are waist deep!
Jim and I were having a conversation about whether we should try to shovel some of the snow, when the dogs started barking. They were freaking out because our neighbor boy, Brandon drove in with his tractor and blade. He worked pretty hard getting the driveway cleared out, and moved the enormous drift that was In front of the bus. Break is supposed to end on Wednesday. I was elated and relieved that he showed up here and helped us out! Casey’s gift cards in his future for sure.
In other news, I officially finished painting the Preston/guest room, except for a couple areas I am patching. Jim and the girls helped me disassemble the (extremely large, heavy and unnecessarily difficult) loft bed and got it carried out of there. Tomorrow afternoon I will shampoo the carpet and then wait until I can get together with Grace to get the area rug. The pieces are coming together, and I am so happy the prospects are nearing completion. I have more projects in the near future, but nothing quite as lofty as the goals I set for this weekend. I might actually be looking forward to going in to work - where I can sit down for a while.
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