Holy cow it is cold outside. If you are in a place that is colder than it is here and for long periods of time I apologize and I don’t mean to sound like a baby.
With that out of the way…. Man it is cold outside. Woke up this morning to the temperature hovering in the mid teens with a stiff wind out of the west. You know the cold is one thing but to add the wind is like adding insult to injury. The temperature didn’t make it out of the twenties all day and now by 8 it is back doen to 16 degrees. The wind is still blowing but not as hard as it was.
The biggest problem with this whole thing as it has been relatively warm up till now. There wasn’t a transition to the weather. It was in the sixties on Saturday and now all the sudden it is freezing.
I am so glad that the lambs that were born came on Sunday and not today. When it is this cold out there is limited time to get those buggers dried off and milk in their bellies. If I had the issues that I had the other day with lambs today I would be lucky if they would make it.
Today was one of those days were I had to pull out the sock liners to keep my feet warm. This evening we had to go out after the sun had set to do some work on the livestock waterers (see other post) to be sure they didn’t freeze. We are still dealing with some water issues and can afford to have the valves in those freeze. I dug deep in the sock drawer this evening for my hand warmers. I get those every once in a while as presents from my mom and they come in handy on evenings like tonight. When you are dealing with water and it is 18 degrees it is always nice to be able to sick your hand back into a nice warm glove.
It doesn’t sound like the cold is going to stick around for long. I think it is supposed to be back up into the upper 40′s by the weekend. Don’t get me wrong, I am ok with cold weather. Winter used to be my favorite season. This changed a few winters ago when we had snow on the ground for weeks on end. I think starting in December through mid February I would guess the ground was snowed covered 70 percent of the time. I know that doesn’t seem like much if you are from a more northern or snowy climate but for here that was a lot. Although I love the snow I was definitely done with it that winter. It just makes all the farm work that much harder.
Well I guess we will see what tomorrow brings. (Down to 15 degrees outside now as I finish this post.)