I took a ridiculous number of photos today.

It was gorgeous out there.

Here are just a couple from my phone, this morning, as I went out to do the cats’ food and water.

First things first, though…

I would have to dig out their feeding area!

It was still quite warm – hovering around freezing temperatures – which makes for a lot of wet, sticky snow.

Perfect for building snowmen, I thought, as I shoveled my way across.

I then found a mystery.

One of the food bowls is missing.

I dug around more, in case it got knocked aside before being buried by the snow (how, I have no idea).

Nothing.  No sign of it anywhere.

I imagine we’ll find it when the snow melts away, but I’m awfully curious as to what happened to it.

No sign of the cats, either, until I was done, and even then, I only saw three of them, hopping their way through the snow, out by the old pump shack.  It was some time before they made their way through the snow to the food!

Though it was quite mild and gentle out here, things were a lot wilder to the south of us.  Enough that our internet provider set up an automatic response at their number to tell people that the weather had disrupted service.

By the time the service was back, though, we had to get snow off the satellite dishes to be able to get a decent signal.  It was so wet and sticky, it did NOT want to come off!

Later on – likely not until tomorrow – the girls will shovel the roof.  This is the first snowfall we’ve had this winter big enough to warrant it.

The Re-Farmer