Aaaaanybody want to guess how much barn time I've had this month, when it's an hour drive to the barn so I usually only go on weekends? And when the ground is so saturated that it's taken four days for our normally dry back yard to dry out? And when neither my BOs nor I particularly want to be outside in 30-45 degree weather, especially at the barn where there's not much to block the wind? (Although we all have freakish husbands that like the cold and/or think that our idea of cold is far too warm because they're from points well north of Texas.)
Anybody?
Yeah. I'm not thinking about it either.
I know we're not suffering from the godawful cold of the Midwest or the feet of snow, but this is so gross for our winters. We're having 20 to 40 degree temperature swings in 24 hour periods - literally, 70 one day, 39 as the high the next, and 25 that night - and we usually only see that in the spring. We haven't really had any snow or ice (and I know I'm gonna regret whining about that next month, which is usually our winter weather month), but the one day we did have snow, it was just... depressing. It snowed during the night, and by the time we woke up... there was snow on the cars and that was about it. Everybody is getting sick.
Just... ugh. Ugh.
It's all adding up to quiet time for the blog. Literally the extent of my excitement this month has been the discovery that one of the squirrels that's nested in our trees stole a dog coat from some poor Chihuahua or something somewhere, shredded it, and is discovering how terrible a nesting material it is every time the wind blows. Although I have to say, whatever dog that was, it had to have been round when it wore the coat; I found the base of the coat first, which is how I know the size of it, and since then, I swear to god I've picked up enough fluff for a big dog coat. I know for sure I've filled 2 plastic grocery bags, and there's more out there. It just keeps coming.
Yeah, ok. I'm a little whiny and grouchy at this point. I have a cold clearing out and a spouse down with food poisoning. Doesn't help that today's the anniversary of putting Justice down - something that doesn't bother me too much day-to-day at this point, but is definitely not the happiest of memories.
Anybody else super ready for spring? lol
