Wow, what a winter we are having. I'm sitting at my dining room table, looking out the windows, and can't see anything but blowing snow! We had a nice 10 inch snow fall yesterday, and now with the very high winds it's blowing all over the place. The kids were let out of school early yesterday and no school today.
Bret's brother Kevin was on his way home from Omaha, driving to Des Moines, yesterday and he stopped by to do a little hunting with Bret. It was snowing and about 15 degrees, go figure! They came home with a few birds and Kevin had a chance to shoot a buck, but he said it wasn't big enough. It's frustrating Bret just a bit. They were perfectly good bucks. For our evening meal together we had some hot chili and crackers. Yum! Soon after dinner the wind started picking up and all that snow that we got was now blowing around in a 30 mph wind, and it's very cold. Wind chills down in the 40 below zero range. Yeah I won't be going anywhere today. The kids have another day off of school due to the weather, so they are loving life. I don't think they'll be to happy though come spring when school is supposed to be out in the middle of May. They'll have some snow days to make up.
Our animals are all doing okay. We've lost a few pigeons, and we're having a hard time keeping the dog's water from freezing in a heated kennel! The heater just can't keep up! Even the heated water bowls in the turkey and pigeon pens are freezing. I'm hoping for a winter warm up soon. Can't wait to see those upper 20's again. That was so warm compared to this! I'm so thankful to be in a nice warm home.
It was nice sleeping in this morning, and the kids are having fun playing together. Bret's on ER starting today and lasting until Sunday. He's only supposed to do three days but the guy who does the schedule messed up, so out he went in the storm at 7:00 this morning. He'll probably just stay at work for the day instead of driving back and forth in this weather. So I probably won't see him for a while.
Okay, now I'm rambling. I'll let you know if we all FREEZE to death!