We always have snow at the end of Nov here, but yesterday's light sprinkling didn't count. It's more the low temps I don't like although the clear crispy weather can be lovely. Below about -5 or -6 which is most of the winter, and often way below that means that all the water buckets have to be filled with warm water from the kitchen - and there's lots of those at tupping time. Just breaking the ice doesn't work as the buckets and drinkers freeze solid. Even our 1000 litre barrels have frozen solid on occasion.
Lost Lambs in her farm where it seems there's lots of snow and seriously low temps must be laughing at us
Winter's winter and all the media hype passes me by. I stock up every winter with enough hard feed for everything here for a couple of weeks - we've been cut off several times for the best part of a week, then have to wait for the feed stores to restock. We store enough of our own hay to last the winter. We're lucky that our animals are all close to the house so no great distance to go to get to them - although when the snow has been very bad getting to the furthest away ones has not been possible for a day - but that's more to do with our decrepitude.
For kitchen stores, there's always enough to scratch a meal and we have a variety of alternative heat sources for during power cuts. Even when we lived on the edge of town less than 2 miles from a giant supermarket, I still laid in stores for winter - it's built into my genes.
But I have forgotten the chocolate Hobnobs
Topic: So did anyone get the snow? (Read 6898 times)
