Could winter just go away now?

Granted, conditions are worse to the south and west of us, but still…

While we are at a relatively balmy -12C/10F right now, the wind chill is at -27C/-17F The snow will continue, off and on, through the evening. At this point, even if the part came in and the truck is fixed, we’re not going anywhere. With the blowing snow, we might have to dig out again, first – even though my brother cleared the driveway with his gas powered snow blowers just a few days ago!

On the plus side, the temperatures are supposed to keep warming up overnight. Tomorrow, our high is supposed to be -3C/27F, and the next couple of days are supposed to reach above freezing. More importantly, overnight lows are expected to stay warmer than -15C/5F for another week.

The yard cats seem to be taking it in stride. The inside cats have no idea how good they have it!

They look so sweet and innocent.

The liars! 😄

I’ve been very low energy all day today. Partly due to having much interrupted sleep for the past couple of nights, what with the cats mostly sleeping all day and going wild at night. 😄 Plus, I think I’m starting to get low in iron of late. 🫤 Joint pain has been high lately, too. Not a surprise, with the weather we’ve been having. I’ve had to get the girls to take over for me with most of my usual jobs. My hands are the worst right now. I’ve been needing to use two hands to pick up my tea cup, simply because I can’t grip the cup handle well enough to lift it. Very frustrating.

Ah, well. It is what it is. To paraphrase in English what my late father used to say, “what are you going to do? You can laugh, or you can cry. I prefer to laugh.”

Or sleep.

Sleep sounds really, really good right now.

I am getting so tired of winter.

The Re-Farmer

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