I HATE WINTER!

Well, nothing like waking up to MORE SNOW to make you want to go back to bed for the day. Or the remainder of the winter. SIGH. I hate WINTER. I HATE Winter! I hate snow. I hate cold. I hate winter. Blech! Blech! Sigh.

SO, wading through the snow (kinda sounds like a song, doesn't it???) to the barn to feed the mush monsters. I won't let them out until the snow lets up. Even if it doesn't stop today, I will let them out for a couple of hours to run around while I clean stalls. Elias needs to stretch his leg and get some exercise. And, since he is the last one out the door in the morning, I guess that means that everyone else needs to go out, too.

Have I told you how much I hate winter?

Oh, yeah - and when I went downstairs to breast feed the wood stove in the basement, guess what I found? Or DIDN'T find? Wood. Great. Another cord of wood is in the front yard, outside the door. Under MORE snow. Oh, goody. We get to haul wood in the snow today, also. The fun never ends.

So, on go the layers and layers. Had to buy new boots because my old boots were all torn out and leaking. (Cheapo me, I went to wally-world and paid $30 for a pair of boots that will last me for about 9 months. Bought my horse a pair of boots that he wore 4 times - cost me $155.00)

Sigh. Winter is never going to end. It's going to be cold and snowy forever. Bleck. Blah. Sigh.

Some good news, however. Went to check on Ashes, and (groan) he wasn't there. Spoke with the lady I gave him to and they gave him to another family a couple of roads down. My mind is not going to good places. Then, just happened to run into her friend (my friend of a friend person) who told me they found a wonderful placement for him with a slightly disabled teen who was told that if they couldn't keep him they had to return him to the person they got him from or me. Whew. He lucked out good! He has a wonderful life and is safe and they had no problems letting me know where he was and that he was healthy and wanted and loved. I'm so glad when things work out for the best of the horse.

The snow piles are getting deeper and deeper. My toes are getting colder and colder. Did I tell you I live in an old farm house that has no insulation in the walls? We have insulated the majority of the walls upstairs, but haven't finished up there yet. Refuse to have both the upstairs and downstairs in a state of destruction/construction at the same time. So, if I turn to type at the computer, my toes get cold. I turn around to warm them at the stove in the living room, I can't type. Sigh. Boo-hoo me. Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to put my boots back on and who cares if I track through the house.

Stay warm. I've posted a pretty picture of all the snow so everyone can ooohhh and aaaahhhh over them. Mostly people who don't have to walk through the stuff.

Sigh... off to the wood stacked in the front yard.

:( Winter. Bleck! Double bleck!