[luckylady]

What bloody positives ? eventually this will have to melt and turn everything back to mud and floods, Hateful stuff.

Baaaahhhhh humbug!

[Mammyshaz]

   you just wrote exactly what the voice in my head has said 

[Foobar]

The peace and quiet!!! 

[pheonix]

Fewer rats. No mud 

Why fewer rats ?
 

our rats just move inside the haylage, which then heats up as it goes bad so its like a big cosy den.

[ppd]

We have no snow but freezing here
I love
1. cleaner floors as the dogs do not come in filthy
2. The mountains look amazing and the light is beautiful
3. The ponies have dry backs and feel warm, even though there is a biting wind here today
4. I love seeing pigs all snuggled up in big straw beds and not all covered in mud
 ........but can we have some snow please - I want to sledge and make a snowman

[RUSTYME]

Freezing weather positives , discuss .
No , no no no no no no no no no no , NO !

[pheonix]

a today, feet numb allday, not good BUT id rather cold weather than the 45degrees in sydney at moment!

[jaykay]

Oh well, that'll happen for sure, but that's why it's worth finding some positives to it while it lasts 

[oor wullie]

I love the cold and snow and I shout at the tv when the weather report uses the phrase "bad weather".

1) It makes everything look beautiful.
2) It makes it much more quiet.
3) It brings out the little kid in me as I spend ages staring out of the window with big eyes, dreaming of getting snowed in.
4) It makes the hillwalking much better.
5) It makes ice climbing a viable pastime.
6) It justifies all the money I spent on a 4x4 for getting along the mile of dirt track to get into the croft.
7) It makes me want to go outside and play
It means I can't do many of the hundreds of jobs about the croft that I should be doing so can have a break without feeling guilty.
9) life feels just a little bit more like an adventure and you have to be a little bit more self reliant which is refreshing in a society where everyone demands a very safe life dependent on comfort all the time.

Sadly I am on an oil rig for the next 2 weeks and so can't enjoy this snow.....hoping it will last another 5 weeks so it is around when I am home too!!!!

[Pedwardine]

It is very pretty, 'specially when Jack Frost has been out decorating everything. Even chicken wire looks pretty with frost needles on it. Ok, the water troughs are all iced over which makes for lots of smashing through with heavy implements but the sheep like eating snow. ALOT! Our tip of a field looks neater (Have to remember where the patches of deep water are though or there's a big cracking sound!! Had one of my daft dogs walking across one. I was so willing her to get a move on 'cause I could hear that cracking....   )

[MAK]

Fantastic weather for hanging 4 halves of pig in the barn overnight earlier in the week so we could butcher cold firm flesh.
-13 last night and water frozein pipes to the house BUT we kept the heat off in the utility/prep room and had it a lovely 10 degrees to make the sausages today. Glad we had hats on.
Other advatage is that the wasps that seem to be living inside the logs that were at the bottom of the pile do not seem to wake up when I bring the logs in the house ( or there are no more wasps in the logs we are burning).

[Lion Learners]

There's something very satisfying about cracking ice (even if it is a thankless task as it's frozen again within half and hour). And the crunch of boots on snow as a lovely sound.
Piling on the layers and planning your route and tasks before you go makes going outside a big event every time.

[smiley bucket]

we have mud under slushy snow, ploughed up by sixteen hooves for the last three months, if it freezes it will be a death trap for them and me.  Would rather have mud than that i'm afraid.  Next year, if i have a barn and concrete and some salt, i wont care one bit

[Lesley Silvester]

3.  In snow..... I CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE DOG POOP IN THE GARDEN BEFORE I'VE STEPPED IN IT!!!    and it's frozen and easy to pick. 
 

I can't see it in ours as it is totally covered.

What bloody positives ? eventually this will have to melt and turn everything back to mud and floods, Hateful stuff.

I'm with you there, Tiz.  I now can't even go out into the garden so am totally house bound.  OH has to go and fetch Pom in for milking.

[Mel Rice]

Its MUCH better than winter rain.....and soooooo lovely to look at.
Round us weve had low cloud that sort of snowed with tiny weeny snowflakes. Every branch on all the trees are covered in white.