Maybe Spring isn't here after all
A few days ago I wrote a really nice post then as I was getting ready to publish it tBlog ate it... honest it did!
So I will try a lame attempt to recreate it, except I have one small issue. In the post that got eaten I was sure Spring was finally here. On Tuesday, March 13th the temperature went up to 65 degrees, it was clear and sunny and just beautiful outside. Another one of the cows had a calf last week, and a baby goat was born on Wednesday, the chickens are starting to lay eggs again. And even though it was cloudy and dreary outside it was warm, 54 degrees, so I was starting to be convinced that spring is here. I guess jinx things by thinking like that.
Wednesday night we had rain and thunder storms all night, and by 5:30 a.m. Thursday there were roadways in the area that were under water so they had to be closed. By 7:30 a.m. the rain changed to sleet, then by 9 a.m. the sleep changed to snow. The water did not stop raising until about 6 p.m. By then there was one way into and out of our town, all the main and most of the secondary roads had been closed off completely. Most of the towns in the area were like this.
The water came right up to the end and back of the barn but didn't get in the barn. This is the closest it has come to the barn in the 7 years I've lived here.
By yesterday morning the water level had gone down about a foot from the night before, thank God. We got about 8 to 10 inches of snow during the day and another 4 to 5 inches overnight. Thankfully the temperature has dropped down (17 degrees this morning), so that it has stopped the water from rising, but by the middle of the week the temps are to be back up so we will probably get flooding all over again.
Good Morning!
I've been awake since 4:00 a.m. but have not gotten anything done... unless drinking coffee and surfing the net count as getting something done!
It is 7:20 now and the sun is just barely starting to come up, the sky has no clouds in it and the temperature outdoors is 15 degrees. The forecast says that we are to have a high temp. of 52 today, but we'll have to wait and seen.
I just noticed that the geese and duck are sitting out in the yard under the bird feeder in apple tree... they chose not to go into the barn last night before dark and got shut outside for the night. I think they are waiting to see if the little song birds drop any of their breakfast.
Speaking of breadfast... I need to make myself something to eat too. I also need to get the clothes out of the washer and put them in the dryer and get some more dirty clothes into the washer. I worked all weekend and didn't do the laundry as I usually do over the weekend. The only things I washed were SO's coveralls, coat, and sweatshirts that he brought home from the drilling rig on Friday. I didn't even get any of his other work clothes washed... good thing he has like 10 sets of everything 
I gotta go... the dogs are bugging me to go outside.
