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So Much Ice
Last night the wind was howling, blowing so hard the house groaned. The temperature dropped to about 10 degrees but the wind chill was well below zero. I left for Morton at 7:45 am and was in the middle of the test I was taking when Mark sent a message that Evan's waterer was frozen. He had already hauled a bucket of water which Evan drank but he needed help. I made it home about 9:20 am and we went right to work carrying buckets of warm water to defrost the ice from the top so he could open it. He found that there was no power to the waterer.
The breaker box was also frozen shut wo we couldn't check if one of the breakers popped. Once I knew Evan had as much water as he wanted I left Mark working and started at the barn. The airbnb guests were moving in today and I still had quite a bit of cleaning. I hauled the vacuum upstairs to sweep the game room before working on the gym. Mark called to report he got the breaker box open, flipped the breaker and water was now running in Evan's waterer. The next job was a big one. There was so much melted snow yesterday then rain on top and finally the big freeze that all of the drives were thick ice. If you wanted to get out to the main road you needed to get a run at it but if a car was coming and you had to stop there was no way to get out without backing a long way then gunning it. I moved the truck out so Mark could fill the skid steer bucket with the indoor arena sand. 
Together we worked on spreading that sand at the road entrance, up the drive and into the barn drive.
Joan sent a video of mom laughing at her snowman which was supposed to be a snow lady. The video was too small to share but I drove over and took a picture of that now REALLY skinny snow lady.
I couldn't believe she was still upright after all of that rain and then wind. The farmer at Middle Grove put in more bales last night. Mike sent the picture below off one of the trail cameras.
He put 6 in but this is the only bale we can see on this camera. We have 40 more bales coming from our original farmer so will for sure have plenty of hay this winter for the 30 horses out there. The rest of the prizes for the Christmas party tomorrow are now all wrapped. I have 2 games planned and Rhoda has 10 more.
