Blizzard You Say?

Apparently I’m oblivious to all weather these days. I knew there was talk of rain turning into snow Saturday night into Sunday. But this morning as I was driving in to the paying job, I heard that we are now in a Blizzard Watch. Oh good grief!

I’m not ready for a blizzard! But I guess it all depends on how much snow we actually get. No one wants to predict the actual snow/rain amounts just yet. Last I heard, the weathermen were looking at three different models. One showed that we would have heavy amounts of snow. One showed that we’d get at least some snow. One showed we wouldn’t get any snow. Figures! I guess if we get snow, we get snow. But it does make it hard to plan anything. Luckily I have everything planned for Saturday late morning/early afternoon so I can get home, get water tanks filled, and be done before the first rain drop (or snowflake) falls.

I’m looking forward to the moisture. Maybe now I won’t worry so much. But it would be nice to avoid the artic blast of cold air and the wind chills. I’m going to have to do some rearranging now that we have Copelin. I was going to give her one stall but then put the corral panel in to divide the stalls (yes our barn is all goofy and we don’t have fancy stalls, just homemade makeshift stalls). Well the corral panel is too big. So I decided I would simply give her two stalls (which would be long and narrow). But with the pending blizzard, I’d rather have more horses in the barn than out. So now I’m not sure who will go in. The horses are just going to have to deal with funky sized stalls for the evening if they want to be in out of the wind.

Hopefully the wind will be out of the northwest. If it’s out of the east, it’ll be unpleasant for everyone. I need to move some more corral panels in case the wind is out of the east. I’ve lucked out and had the wind protect the mares and ponies so no putting them in stalls. But if the wind is out of the east for this storm, I’ll have to put them in the hay shed. I also need to figure out how to fix the big barn door on the east. It’s been broken for over a year now (I was too sick and too pregnant to care when it finally stopped working). But we used to always use the big door but now that it’s broken, I use the smaller doors. No big deal except the door isn’t quite shut all the way. It’s slightly adjar thanks to the horses messing with it and pushing it around just a little. How they can push a door open when I thought it was permanently stuck, I have no idea! Oh what I would give for a decent barn with decent stalls and easy access to everything.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we will bypass the storm. As much as I would like to have a day off, this time around, I really want to go to the paying job. I guess we’ll see how the weekend progresses.  I’ll try to post again later today but not sure how this weekend will go.