The Grass/Land - A Cool and Frosty Drink This Weekend

A Cool and Frosty Drink This Weekend

I was going to go out and do a sort of  photo essay of the storm this afternoon, but the wind is roiling around the buildings making eddies that spin the snow up like giant dust devils and I didn't dare  step off the back porch.  So the above photo is all you get today of the storm.  As you can see, the world drops away just past the lawn chairs by the fire pit and garden fence.   It is a little hard to tell how much moisture we have gotten, but it is more than we had, so it is welcome.  It is not enough.  Not yet.  But it is a start towards summer grass and hay.

I did steel myself to make the trudge down to the barn to brush the horses while my husband picked stalls.  They are in good spirits and doing well.  No one is stocked up and while they enjoyed being brushed vigorously in "quarters", to get their circulation up, no one seemed to need it desperately. 

Below is the scene we woke to on Monday morning.  It looks like we got a pretty good snow!  I will have to check the media to see what the official amount is.  Our road is plowed already, so now only the drift in the driveway is keeping us in.