Yesterday I went to work with my cousin out in the valley. We were supposed to move the guys cows to his winter grounds. 20 minutes before we were supposed to be there to feed, we get a call from him. Wondering if we'd left yet, because it was pretty nasty out there. We live over an hour away, of course we'd left! Well Casey and I aren't the kind to be deterred by a little bad weather. We got to the ranch and waited for the owner so we could start feeding. It was cold, but not too bad, or so we thought. Opened the door and I felt like Mary Poppins! Seriously, I thought Dorothy was going to blow in from Kansas! It was hard to walk, it's not easy to buck a serious head wind. We loaded up and headed out. There were three bunches of cows to feed, one being the herd we were supposed to move. Casey and I were really hoping he wouldn't cancel, but it wasn't looking good. Feeding was a nightmare! Hay, and dirt in my eyes like never before. There were several times that Casey and I just fed with our eyes shut because we couldn't open them. Every time I got off the truck the wind blew me back on my butt! I've honestly never witnessed let alone been in, such strong winds. When we got to the big bunch and he told us to feed, we were crushed. A couple of the other folks who were supposed to help had called and backed out, not that there weren't all kinds of other guys that would have helped. Our horses were in the trailer and ready to go, we still wanted to ride! Just didn't have anywhere to go.
So we decided to go to the little diner and have a beer. Yea it was 11, but we were down in the dumps. Before we finished a guy called and said he needed help feeding some big bales. So we took off to help him, I was however, instructed to stay in the pickup. Well fine with me, it was starting to snow, and was just cold. After awhile I had no idea where they had gone, it was snowing hard and I couldn't see anything. So little Miss Pippy and I just holed up in the pickup and waited. I called my daddy and he told me it was also snowing downriver, and that if we wanted to make it home with the horses we needed to get out of there right then. Finally the guys showed up and off we went. It had snowed probably six inches in somewhere around three hours. It was getting nasty in a hurry. We only slid towards the river a couple times. Made it home by four and got all the horses put up. Just before dinner the power went out. That was ok, we played cards and my daddy read us some Edgar Allen Poe(he couldn't find his Robert Service book). We had a great time huddled around the table in the lamplight. The power came back on about midnight.
Here are some photos I took yesterday from mid day on.
These were all taken consecutively. It's just beautiful!
Xoxo Loves,
Me
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