I just got back from a 2-day water sampling trip that I do on a monthly basis as part of my job.
The temperature this morning when we started out was -11 without the wind chill calculated in.
Believe me; I did not want to know what the wind chill temp was as I stood out there on the frozen
rivers chopping ice. All I know is, taking my glove off for 10 seconds was too long!
But the February sampling is done and it is all downhill from here on.
All that driving and working in the extreme temperatures got me thinking of other years and extremes I have dealt with on the farm
In Wyoming in 2005, my daughter and I had to milk goats when it was 23 below zero.
Not milking because it was too cold was not an option.
A newly freshened yearling doe was dribbling milk from her udder.
It was so cold that the warm milk was not hitting the ground,
rather, freezing and building up on the inside of her back leg with each drip. That was cold!
How about you? What is your "It was so cold that...." story? On or off the farm?
Once when I was little, I overheard my mom telling a friend that she had felt sorry for a stray cat
and had let it in the garage to get out of the cold. The next morning she found it frozen.
I wasn't supposed to hear that. That was cold!
Twenty more days hath February.
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. ~Wendell Berry
2 comments:
Yes! It's so cold that the chickens are plucking each other for extra feathers! Here in west Texas it was 11 degrees this morning........for us, it is too cold! blessings,Kahtleen
Around here it is so cold that the dogs are drooling icicles.
Things dropping from the other end are freezing almost before hitting ground too.
The groundhog is sometimes correct, right??
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