No matter how much you love your job there are some moments when you just don't feel like doing it, Sunday night was one of those nights for me I had a wonderful relaxing Sunday with my super farmer husband, we'd watched some entertaining television and it was windy and snowing and cold.
I very much did not want to travel out into the driving snow and do the chores, but alas my animals needed me and this is the life of a farmer. I strapped on my heavy snow boots and headed out to the barn.
Now I can handle cold pretty well I'm a Vermonter for Pete's sake, it doesn't bother me very much but last night was cold! The kind of cold that makes your nose hairs freeze immediately and your sinuses ache, my fingers in my gloves were so cold that they actually hurt.
The piggies crawled out of their warm straw filled house just long enough to eat there warm slop, then crawled right back into their house again. It took hot water to defrost everyone's water bowls, I must say the cracking and snapping of the very thick ice was slightly satisfying.
Even the bovines with their thick fluffy coats did not stay out in the wind very long, they booked it back into their nice warm shed with their thick bedding of straw as smart bovines do.
They were not so keen on going into their shed the other night, however, which is baffling to me since it was zero out and it had snowed. First thing in the morning when I went to do chores there were some bovine snow angels.
This is caused by Daisy the cow and Duffer the steer deciding to sleep outside in the snow, what possessed them to do this I will never understand since their house was warm and dry and full of straw freshly fluffed that morning. Goodness only knows why they decided to sleep on the ground.
The next morning the outline of where they had lain and melted the snow had turned wet and when they vacated the spot, the cold turned the wet into a glassy ice again, so indeed they were bovine Ice Angels. Sorry for not having a photo.
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