Ready for the end of winter!

[thaiblue12]

I am tired of the cold, the snow and the ice! Tired of smashing igloos out of my water buckets, breaking chickens waters and most of all burning myself. Having cold hands and feet when you get in the shower is painful enough but it is much worse when your hands are so frozen that you do not notice your finger is touching the HOT metal rack inside the oven. Got a nice second degree burn out of that one.
So if you are out tending the goats and have frozen body parts wait before you check on dinner.

[Alice In TX/MO]

It was almost 80 here today. Goats were panting. I was sweating.

It's supposed to cool down to the 60's on Tuesday.

[thaiblue12]

Rose you are a meanie!
I want 80 degree weather

[fcnubian]

I want 80degree weather to.

I HATE winter.

[moonspinner]

After a mild January around here, yesterday the worst so far. 50mph winds on top of near zero temps. I'm with you on dumping winter!

[CookingPam777]

Tell me about it! I could not help but laugh! I went out to milk my goat this morning and my hands were so numb from the cold and in pain I could not feel the goats udders. I hope I got all the milk out. But how can I know I couldn't feel hehehe.

[CookingPam777]

Sorry you burned your finger. That is not funny.

[CookingPam777]

Oh I forgot to not that it was 0 degrees. YIKES!

[Corky]

I understand and it is really hard to understand when I read on the Journal thread about grandmotherbear sufferng from the heat and a bad sunburn.

WHAT IS SUNBURN? Wait! I think I remember but am not sure. LOL!

[Eunice]

What will it feel like to not wear long john?

[waygr00vy]

it got to 87 here last week...the goats were miserable...i was miserable too! Not ready for winter to be over yet! cooled down the last couple of days though and has been gorgeous...low 70's and sunny I feel for you guys!

[Teacupliz]

I have to get on this thread- I am freezing- -20 wind chills I leave near lynn. I am ready for summer but I would much rather have just 60-70*
I do not work well in the 80-90's. I have one of those huge big red old barns- so it is not to bad inside- but if I leave my 20 cows in I got lots of dung to shovel tonight- FUN. Goats are all cozy- kidding starts in 3 wks- hoping for a little warmer weather-
Liz

[DixyDoodle]

I hate cold......and wind......and snow drifts. We got all three yesterday and I could scream, I'm so fed up with winter here! I recall my mom's saying that it always starts to turn to spring once Valentine's Day is over. We'll see.

Yesterday, I got up and it was fairly warm (just below freezing). Mmmmm, nice for riding, right? Wrong! Four hours later, the temps dropped to about -17C (windchill made it -27C or something like that). Forget riding!

The wind cropped up and made drifts of 4ft high in some spots. So much for my little footpaths I'd worked for weeks to make.

Water in all the bowls turned to ice in a matter of 45 minutes. What a treat to bash at them like crazy to get the ice out (thankfully they were rubber, if they were plastic, they would have shattered). Fortunately, the goats have learned: drink when it gets there or wait til next time around. The horses are luckier: they have a heated trough (which just about uses up all the available wattage in the barn). No one was going anywhere, stand by the hay, eat, then go back into the shelters/barn/coop.

The dogs were equally unamused. Go out for a quick tinkie, doing a cutesie little ballet across the snow in double time, and retreating ASAP into the house.

Dh then calls today to inform me to go easy on the heat, he didn't notice our oil gauge read low (as in on EMPTY). Um, it's only going to be the coldest night of the year! So the stats are down and I'm hoping it holds out til morning when the oil truck gets here. Yet another day of wishing I had a woodstove. ARGH!

[thaiblue12]

Oh Dixy I have been there and it stinks! We ran out of propane last winter (horrible blizzard time) it took them 2 days to get here and then the guy gets snippy with me and says I should have called when it was at 20 percent. I told him I would have liked to have seen him climb the six foot snow drift and find the stinking tank to check on the level! They are no longer my propane company.
I hope your heat lasts all night.

It is suppose to be 47 degrees here today. They must be joking since the winds are going really strong and it made me cold and blew all the trash around. I had to play 172 pick up Also said rain but it seemed more like sleet hitting my face.
March is a bad month here in Colorado for heavy wet snow, I would just as soon skip it. So after Valentine's isn't the time I am looking forward to it is after April.

You people in the south can keep your warm weather reports and all your lovely bugs. My favorties are fire ants and the lovely flying roaches. Call it a palmetto bug but it is still a roach! lol

[waygr00vy]

oil trucks??

i don't particularly like the 80-90 degree weather either. fall, spring, and winter are definitely our best seasons. In the summer you just want to sit inside in the AC...

[cathleenc]

I really don't want 80 degree weather.... 20 degrees and no wind would make me happy enough! 40 would be pure honey.

yes, it was 40 below with the windchill this weekend. Started today at -8.

[lijj]

I'm with you... seems like there is no end in sight. Constant blowing winds and snow yesterday with single digit temps made it feel like -20. This morning it was -5 with a windchill of around -15. I hate it when my boogers freeze in my nose!

And there's another snow storm tonight

[goatgang]

I'm tired of single digit temps and high winds too. The last two mornings I had frozen mice in the goat water. Today was almost a heat wave 14F and no wind and sun. The goats were sunbathing all day.

[LFmenagerie]

-38 F this morning. Luckily no windchill. I can take it with no wind chill. I've been saying since mid Jan 'This will be the last big cold for the winter'. That was several 'big colds' ago. Mabe it really was this time!
Boy the goats look fluffy!
I hate freezing boogers, too.
and frozen eggs.
But how bout those great wool mittens that have the finger part of the mit that pulls back and they are really gloves under that have chopped off fingers. Love them for a quick unhook of clips. Quick flip-unhoof-and cover again. Just wish the thumb wasn't so long to get in the way sometimes. Otherwise, love em as much as my Long Jans (mine are female).

Pam

[hillsidedigger]

The 3 snowiest, although not necassarily coldest, winters I can recall here, 1960, 1969 and 1983 did not even start until after this time of the year.