This is the 3rd day this week of snow, blowing snow, white out, yada yada yada. School has already called a 2-hour delay for tomorrow morning. We took a heifer to the locker this afternoon. I wasn’t sure we’d make it through the drifts pulling a trailer. Thank goodness for four wheel drive!
Interesting, though, that what little traffic was out and about was mostly people hauling livestock. We ran into our neighbor at the elevator where we go to weigh our animals. He was selling 3 semi loads of cattle today, trying to get his truckers here before the weather got even worse. On top of it he’d had a heifer calve this morning and had to call the vet to pull it.
Then we went to retrieve our eldest daughter from her weekend at her godmother’s house in Minnesota. The drive up was bad enough, but the drive home was worse. Apparently they pulled the plows off the road after dark. Big big drifts. Once again, thank goodness for four wheel drive!
All sorts of lovely things happen in this weather! On to the links…
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A thankful heart by Plain Old Kristi. A lovely post for Valentine’s Day this week!
Pi day recipes for homemade pie at Kitchen Parade. Bake a pie to honor pi, and win a prize! I need to take this challenge. My mother-in-law was a fantastic pie maker. She kept our freezer full of pie, so I never learned to make it. It’s mainly the crust I have issues with.
On Meat from the Indianapolis Monthly. A good portrait of an old-fashioned butcher shop, much like the one we use.
Rural Decay Flickr pool. What is it about pictures of neglected buildings? Such beauty, such sadness. I imagine what these places were like when they were new and useful and had an active everyday life.
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