We had 2 pretty days between snow storms. On Saturday Cody took Jones to town with him to get feed while I stayed home to clean. Our house was one big pile of muddy mess after the first snow storm. It took me 2 hours to get this house spotless without a 2 year year old. It usually takes me ALL week to do what I did in those 2 hours with Jones by my side:)
Jones' favorite treat is a chocolate milk from Sonic! Cody drove thru and picked one up for him! He was a happy lil' dude.
When they got home we got ready for round 2 with the snow. We had heard that we would see up to 2 ft of snow.......most news outlets denied, denied, denied. We follow 2 random NW OK guys that give us, straight up, the details of weather. They are usually right so we prepared for the worst. We put out tons of feed for the animals just in case we were snowed in and couldn't get to them. I had to work the church nursery Sunday night and when I left Cody was chopping down trees for fire wood. I figured our 24 pack of fire starters was sufficient enough but boy was I wrong!
When I got home from church our laundry room was stacked with lots and lots of wood and everything was ready to go. Cody even brought the generator over and lots of extension cords and my mom had made it in just in time for a blizzard!
We went to bed and woke up to this. Complete white-out conditions. We still had electricity though! Whoop!
I ran out to feed the dogs and there was a 4 ft snow drift in the middle of their pen:( Snow had blown in their shelter and I tried to get it out as much as I could. We have brought them in before during frigid temps but they hate being inside and usually only last 30 minutes or so in the house!
When I got back in from feeding the pups, our electricity went out. I called it in because we are the only ones that live out here, in the middle of nowhere, and I knew no one else would have. We were without electricity for 27 yours. We really thought it would have been longer and oh so happy it wasn't. Cody started up the generator and plugged up our deep freezer and our fridge and started a fire! We made sandwiches for lunch and we made homemade pizza's for dinner on the stove top. They were so good! We got lucky our stove was gas!
The weather outside was crazy. The wind was blowing about 40 mph all day and you couldn't see more than 5 ft in front of you. It snowed, snowed and snowed some more!
It was so nice without electricity! We had our first fire in the fireplace going! The house stayed warm and it was nice snuggled up to my boys all day. Mom went to bed about 7:00 that night and we just laid by the fire watching Mickey Mouse with Jones. That night Jones slept in our bed with me so I could make sure he was covered up all night and Cody slept in the living room to man the fire. When we woke up it was freezing and miserable. I drug our huge feather comforter in the living room and laid under it all morning. Electricity finally came on around 12!
The next day outside the sun was out and we had 2 ft of snow with 4-8 ft snow drifts in places. Cody walked 1/2 mile to the barn to get the tractor to see if he could clear off the roads and clear off our driveway. He made it and it took him forever to make it back to our house. There was a 5-6 ft snow drift all over the road he had to plow thru!
We had a 3 ft drift in front of our house.
Jones worked on his cars all day while Cody dug us out of the snow!
This was the huge drift on the road after Cody cleared a path for us to drive down. Jones and I tagged along on the second trip down the road to clear!
After Cody cleared a way with the tractor he tried to get the dodge out and see if it would make it down the road. He got out of our driveway and got stuck.......
Later that afternoon we walked to the deer pens to check on them. Cody had on his waders and had no problem. I had on my water boots and couldn't make it. It was soo deep!
The next day mom was getting cabin fever and we followed her to the main road to make sure she didn't get stuck. It was SOOOO bright.
It took 7 days for the city to come out and clear off our road. We still have huge piles of snow in places and water everywhere! The roads are all mud now and it makes it hard to get around. Cody still hasn't been able to get the truck on the ranch. We went out yesterday and filled a 1 ton feeder by hand because we couldn't get the huge feed trailer out in this mud.
Snow is all fun and games until it starts to melt. Now we are left with a huge muddy mess. But we sure needed this moisture!!!!
We had a pretty successful first blizzard!
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