Snow blower

Dan’s New Toy

Posted on by Melissa

One sunny day last summer, my husband was on a mission. He had had enough during the past long, hard, snowy winter and raised his bidding number over and over and OVER again until he had bought something on his bucket list.

This is my husband's idea of fun!
This is my husband’s idea of fun!

As you can see, the dogs like it too. We have 2 dogs… Cosmo and Brooklyn. Cosmo is our black lab and is close to 8 years old. Our yellow lab, Brooklyn, is his daughter and is about 3 years old.

Brooklyn especially loves to chase things that fly, like snow from a snow blower! Both dogs also enjoy tennis balls, bale spears, welding sparks and the worst of all, flying manure.

Let’s just say she stays a lot cleaner chasing flying snow. 🙂

So, if you’re in the neighborhood, you may be seeing Dan going from place to place, using his new toy! He’s good like that.

 

The snow is falling…

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The view out my front window...
The view out my front window… It’s lookin’ kinda blue with the snow starting to fall.

 

Today is the day I probably should have taken down my Christmas Tree, decorations, cards, and my cute little lighted village.

Lighted village 1
I sure love my little village!
Lighted village 2
Such a cute little house! Isn’t it festive?
Lighted village 3
If I could, I think I would leave it up all year. There’s just something about teeny tiny lights that makes me happy!

But… (in true procrastination fashion) I chose instead to start my new little adventure! To be honest, I’ve never done anything like this before, blogging that is. And frankly it will be a “learn as you go” kind of thing.

So… here we go! We will see how much time this “snow storm” affords me in the next couple days. You just never know what that will mean for the farm.

We could be spending all day outside pushing snow? Or fixing waterers that freeze up? Or bedding down cattle that are knee deep in snow? Or cuddling up in our warm, wood-fire heated house.

And my hubby has a new toy I may get to show you! After last winter’s deluge of daily snow and cold, my husband invested in a rear-end snowblower for our tractor. Yay! Maybe I won’t have to spend all day in the skid loader? We will see! More to come on that subject!

So I don’t know where you are at out there, but I hope you are snuggled up on this snowy night. As for me, it’s chore time. So I’m headed out to scrape the cow lot in the skid loader so my husband can clean barn and haul manure.

Can’t wait to get in and eat one of my favorite casseroles. I will try to remember to take a picture.

Out I go!