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Re: [RC] Weather - Heidi Smith

>Woke up this morning to -40 degrees here in SW Montana , and that is not counting the wind chill . We have about 18 inches of snow on the ground here at our place also . Horses are all out in creek bottom pastures with willows for shelter , will keep all the hay they can eat in front of them now all  thru this cold spell as it is supposed to hang on for a few days . My son was estatic as he got a phone call this morning that the bus would not be running so he got a "free" day off from school , the bus has a one way 60 mile route with two mountain  passes to go over to get to town so it is to dangerous to be out in this  . Anyone else getting these cold temps right now ?
 
AHA!!  So YOU'RE the culprit, Drin!  <g>  We got the snow before we got the cold (6 inches Friday night, 3 inches Saturday night, on top of about 6 inches already here) and then yesterday afternoon the temps plummeted and we had a howling east wind that made it all drift.  (The driveway is particularly bad--I hope I can get one truck out without chains to go to work, as the chains are already on the feed truck, and for some reason, at the moment we only seem to have one full set....  Maybe we'll make a run to the bottom of the drive with the chained-up feed truck first so that I have tracks to follow....)  We are sub-zero, but only about -9, so nowhere near in your ballpark. 
 
The horses are out playing fox and geese this morning in the snow, having a grand old time.  I'm really proud of my broodmares--they are eating big bales free choice, and we have 100+ hungry elk that leer over our upper fence and have even come down in the yard and eaten anything we leave out along the stallion paddocks (had 20 head peering in my back door a few mornings ago), but so far, the broodmares have kept the elk run off of "their" hay quite nicely.  They are humorous to watch--they post "sentry mares" who march around the perimeters when the elk get close, and they look like how dogs stiff-leg around strange dogs, checking things out, heads low and snaking.  If some actually come over the fence, the group will actually charge and chase them back up the hill.  I got to watch one of their charges the other night--it was fun and funny!  Meanwhile, no more hay left out in the yard, either--which means the feed truck has to go along Stallion Row every morning.  <sigh>

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