March already and it feels like sugaring season. The days are longer, nights are cold, days are in the 20s, 30s and 40s. The back of winter has broken… yeah, right. My family rolled in last Saturday to what they say is the most snow they have ever seen. Probably is.
That picture of the barn was taken two days ago, before the last weather trifecta (snow, sleet, and freezing rain) hit. We’ve taken to plowing around the backside of the barn as there isn’t anymore room for the roof to shed. While those who ski, ski, those of use who remain behind go walking.
Breaking through into the hip deep snow presents challenges. It is hard to get back up onto your shoes, a helping hand makes a big difference.
I don’t usually have company on my show shoe walks. What a pleasure, extra feet pack tomorrow’s trails easily. When we cross into the field, I spotted an existing trail, someone had come through here recently. Great news for us, no break through. We walked on top. The fence lines have long disappeared. We found this one as we stepped onto a wire.
walking up the drive to the house.
13 responses to “walk with me wednesday”
That is an amazing amount of snow. It looks more like Alta or Snowbird.
Brr.
Thank you for the snow shoe walk! It was beautiful!
I’m sure you are glad that you got the barn extension up in time for a memorable winter!
Makes RI’s 50’s seem balmy!
Hmm…. putting snowshoes on my list of to buy items for the move.
Love your banner. Especially the reallllly tall sheep *lolol*
To walk above the fences. It’s been quite a year for snow.
We had a winter in this area like that when I was 12 – four feet deep on the level for over two weeks. Shoveling, snow caves, first pair of skis, no school – a memory of paradise.
Although I know you must be tired of all that snow, I enjoyed your photos. Winters here in Virginia offer more in the way of ice storms than snow storms although in the late ’60s we had lots of blizzards and deep, drifting snows. We would have to dig out gates to get into the barnyard and sometimes it was easier to walk over a fence where the snow had drifted. I liked the winters back then a lot better than what we get now.
Woowheee! I woulda been a plowing maniac this season. Makes me wonder how our neighbor Tom (who fell off his 2-story roof last January and broke both legs) is managing…….
That totally blows my mind. I’m so glad you didn’t step ON that wire! Ouch!
That’s an amazing sight–a whole fence buried!
It’s nice you had company on your snow shoe walk….very pretty!
So what do the sheep and llamas do in the barn all winter? Play poker? Tell lies? Have spitting contests? Do they occasionally get to look outside and see what they are missing?
When it’s shearing season, pleas take lots of photos. I am just fascinated by the way the fleece is clipped to just roll off the sheep.
We really got shortchanged in the snow department up here again this year. Doesn’t seem right — we’re so far north and yet we don’t get the snow. Pout.