Digging Out...

No rest for the weary...

We don't have tons of livestock, but we do have enough that going out is inevitable. This is the drift in front of our garage. About 5 ft high. Emma thought this was great fun...

More drifts. It's hard to imagine how high this actually is...but there are 2/3 rows of landscaping bricks under all of that snow.
Our back yard.
Colby is shoveling the drive...he soon gave up.:)
Vance is shoveling a path to his blade....a. life. saver.
another glimpse of our driveway pre-bladed. You can just get a peek of our flower bed around the pole. It is 3 bricks high.
Last night, Vance brought all 3 coonhounds into his shed. Bear slept on the bed of the truck.
Sue and Bull slept in the dog box....like doggie prison:)
While Vance dug out the blade and tractor, the kids and I (mainly me) dug out the dog houses. This is Duke's...no wonder he was scratching at the door to come in last night.
There is no way that Vance's dad's dog would have lived out there! I dug TONS of snow out of his dog house. After pulling everything out, we filled them back up with dry, warm hay.

They were thankful.
This is the drift on the south side of the hill. It was pretty tall!
Colby can almost reach the roof!
They still think it's great fun!

Our long part of the driveway. Vance was out for 2 hours blading away.
The spot in front of the shed is bladed, but he still had to tackle the spot by the house.
2 ft deep?
Down by the wing wall.

I am thankful that my husband was home today...first time that another Tri County worker (who has worked there 28 years) can remember not reporting for work.

I am thankful to hear all the wonderful stories of good Samaritans out there blading driveways for nothing but a wave and a smile.

I am thankful for another day to "dig out" and not have to head to school...Boy will there be stories to tell when we do get back there!

I am thankful for fb and it's connections...it's so nice to stay in touch with everyone out there!

Stay warm!