All Good Things....

Well they say All Good Things Must Come To An End. Our first winter blizzard is going on all around me. Wisconsin DOT has given up clearing the roads for now. The worst is on it's way...lots of wind and wind chills 20 below. My dear husband is out on the tractor, this minute, clearing a path to the barn through drifts that are almost 3 feet.
Not like we didn't know this was coming...I got the jumps and mounting block, etc. out of the arena and put away on Monday. Finished spreading mulch on the garden and flower beds and stored the tomato cages in the rafters of the stable. Moved a few round bales from the back forty hay barn up here in the shed by the house so they are handy. Blanketed 3 more horses (the elderly and lean) and shifted Breeze over to the west pasture now that her quarantine has ended. We are going into winter with less horses than last year, so it seems easier. Katy the goat, showing her age, has refused to leave the barn the last 2 days. Same with the barn cats...the older ones huddle around the wash rack heater in the barn or curl up in the hay bales. Soon I will don my "cocoon" of Sorels and Carhartts and go to work out there. Some dread it...I, do not. Call it weird, but find it exhilerating and satisfying to work in and overcome the elements no matter what they are. Is it my competitive nature? Hmmmmm. Okay, enough talk. Off I go! (Wish you were here!)