Monday, March 04, 2019
Two weeks in and it’s still snowing. Okay, light snowing without much accumulating. The problem is nothing’s melting. All that which landed on the ground early remains and is deep. I’m still having to shovel snow.
Yesterday, I couldn’t get near enough to a faucet that lets water flow into the horses’ heated water troughs. The horses had kicked only one path through the snow, to a single spot far from the faucet where all three take turns to stand and drink. Curious, that they didn’t trample more paths up to and around the troughs. Maybe like me, they don’t enjoy pushing themselves through three or four feet of crusty snow.
Since refilling tanks isn’t a one-time job, I found a shovel, went to work and created a walkable path. I filled the water tanks and looked around, noticing a path I’d hurriedly dug earlier in order to lead horses into the barn. It was very narrow and that if something excited them, the horses might crowd me too much. I shrugged, there’s no telling when a melt might start, so repositioned my shovel and began digging.
Last night, a few more inches of snow accumulated here on the town’s “desert side”, and as is typical, maybe even more new inches landed on the town’s west side. So today, the beat goes on.
Dear Readers, With harsh weather almost everywhere, do take care. Diana
Diana's Morning Blog 
I would guess our horses are as tired of this as we are. We took the horses and dogs for a walk around the roads out here and they seemed to really enjoy it. The horses kept stopping and looking around. I think they figured out where the neighboring horses live. Probably could smell them. Yes, stay upright and warm.🙋😊
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 7:54 AM Diana’s Morning Blog wrote:
> trailriderincentraloregon posted: ” Sunni Monday, March 04, 2019 Two weeks > in and it’s still snowing. Okay, light snowing without much accumulating. > The problem is nothing’s melting. All that which landed on the ground early > remains and is deep. I’m still having to shovel snow. Ye” >
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