Joe Feeding the HorsesMore snow and wind this morning. We have a winter storm warning. Its sunny and nice east of us right now but I looked at the highway cams and anything to the west is stormy. The dogs, and us as well, are hunkering down ‘til its over. Such a white out - cannot see very far out of the yard. Its good to get some moisture finally. Each of the last several days we've had 2 or 3 inches of new snow. The sagebrush is now covered for the first time this winter so maybe up to 18 inches on the level. The back half of the yard and both corrals are really filling with snow and drifts well over my head. I keep digging out the cat's "door" and its about 3 or 4 feet down now. I think they are mostly holed up and nestling in their tent/bed staying in the shed. I can't imagine what they think when they try to come outside with huge mountains of snow to navigate.
Joe tries to put the horse's hay somewhere it won't blow away. They are weird about going into the corral where they have a very nice shed and manger to be sheltered and eat out of the weather, but they won't stay in there. They would rather stand out in the middle of the field in all the worst weather. The drift in front of the corral they have to go through to get to their water trough is getting quite deep and they don't want to go through it. I may try to lure them in with some oats. >P>When I went to pinedaleonline.com this morning there was a headline that a cement truck has rolled over and was blocking the road to Rock Springs. It sure would be possible for someone to plow into it in the wind we are having. It happened about 9 a.m. and they didn‘t get it off the road until 4:30. This is so neat - I never would have known about any cement truck rolling over without the internet- never had to leave my desk to know about it.
In the afternoon the storm settled down a little. Joe took the dogs with the snow machine and went out to get more hay at the haystack. We haven't gotten the mail since Friday.
Today it dawned on me I hadn’t seen my camera bag lately, and finally figured it was the day of the party that I last saw it. Thought I lost it off the snow machine with all the cards somewhere between here and the mailbox the day we had the party. I just felt sick thinking the expensive cards would be ruined or lost. I’ve got 4 now. Got some of the big ones when we went to Alaska because I take so many pictures I knew I would need plenty. I had my wits about me better than I thought though - I had put the camera bag (with the cards) in the back of the snow machine and then promptly forgot all about it for most of a week. I asked Joe to look for it on the trail (would have been buried) and he said it was in the snow machine. I was sure happy.
Today I joined The Equine Art Guild. Probably in about a month one of my horse paintings will appear in their member web pages.
Right down to the deadline, I sent off 3 photos of a few of my paintings for consideration to be put in WAOW publicity. Did manage to get them resized to the dimensions they wanted. We will see. More of those learning curves.
It never takes much to amuse me. Last night I made my usual cup of sleepytime tea before going to bed and sat in the rocker in front of the wood stove sipping, and thinking how delicious it was. I love sleepytime. I looked into the cup and thought it was pretty clear and realized there was no teabag in there. I laughed at myself for 5 minutes. I guess this is part of getting older.
