Spring blizzard

After such a mild winter, it was a shock to have sub zero wind chill and blowing and drifting snow on Friday and Saturday!  The wind continued after the snow stopped and when there wasn't any more snow to blow, the wind picked up dust from the fields. 

The wind stopped Monday morning and the sun came out to begin melting the drifts left behind by the storm.  We won't be farming this week!

Friday afternoon snow storm.....

And almost as quickly as it blew in, it blew out and left some milk chocolate drifts around the farm.

Alicia and Reynald hooked up the air cart to the spring drills, several days ago.

After the wind ran our of snow to blow, it started to cut and lift tiny pieces of soil to add to the drifts.

Reynald has to do a little plowing to open our lane.  Prior to this we just drove through the frozen field to get to the county road!

Butch the cougar seems unfazed by the spring blizzard.

Up an over the pasture fence!

My decorative bicycle is almost buried.

Remember this from last week.....

now it looks like this.

And the happy yellow crocus.....

are a  little sad, but not as sad as the daphne bush.  

Baxter likes the drifts because he gets a better view of the farm which he is charged with protecting.

King of the Mountain!

The chicken yard has a good size drift but there's still lots of room for them to scratch around and eat vegetable scraps from the kitchen.