Monday, March 16, 2026

Snow-bliz-magedon?

These photos were from yesterday. It is snowing and blowing right now and I've been out to check my animals and they are all doing fine. I still have electricity so I think we are good!





 

This is where you can hear the sleet pounding our house while the windblown snow obliterates the view of the shed. I live in a hollow, so imagine what it was like on the ridge in the open!


Sunday was wild. I woke up when I heard thunder, saw lightening, and heard what sounded like glass hitting the house.

It wasn't glass. It was sleet. I've heard of Thundersnow so I posted that we had Thundersleet on the NOAA local site and a lot of folks replied they had the same...at 4:30am.

Here the mule gals choose to rest while eating with their butts to the wind. By afternoon they'd taken snow baths and rolled off the snow blankets they had. Yes, they were warm and dry under that snow. I know because I go out and put my hands on them.




I am pleased to say that Hannah had no qualms about going out with Charlie yesterday to do dog stuff. Eventually the sleet turned to snow, then to rain, then to snow, and then we had a lull in the weather.

During the lull I took the two 'kids' out for a walk. They actually did great in the crystalized snow/sleet that covered everything. 

They ran, they chased and they played. 

They wore themselves out. We headed back home for supper and some quiet time.

With the dogs asleep, I was able to take out stuff from my 'creative' boxes and do some toy photography indoors. 

I was in the mood for dinosaurs. I did use a spray bottle to imitate rain but it just made the T Rex angry, so I used an overlay of rain to keep things from getting out of hand.



Maybe that's how I felt about the weather and why I chose and angry looking T Rex.
😂


This morning our gravel road is impassable even after the town grader came through. The drifts on the roads and around buildings are at least 3 feet or so.

I wonder what the day will bring.



13 comments:

  1. We had similar weather but too cold for sleet. The forecast changed so no snow today but just above zero and windy! When equines grow a thick coat they do well in cold weather. They do know to turn their butts to the wind. I absolutely love that photo of T-Rex. I know, I'm weird.

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    1. I did find them cold once and that was when we had a horrible rain storm that turned to blizzard and then the temps were at -25 without wind chill. I added warm much to them along with dry hay and they warmed up fast.

      This morning I walked into the woods and pulled a sled of hay behind me so they could have breakfast without any winds.

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  2. Some local photographer posted that we were to experience 4 distinct weather conditions today. It's not nice out, but we may soon go for a short walk up the street.

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    1. Local photographer? Neat was it you are the Missus???
      You have a wonderful day.

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  3. Oh my - glad you are warm and dry inside!
    We don't have the snow, but we sure have the wind! At the lake they clocked 90 mile an hour winds on Friday! Trees and poles are down, very spotty electricity (we are lucky ones), missing roofs, some trees on houses and vehicles. Businesses, grocery stores, restaurants closed. Many gas stations because card machines aren't working. They were working as fast as they can to restore everyone when the second storm blew in this morning. Enough, Mother Nature.

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    1. Oh my! Those winds were something. We lost power for hours on Friday and I figured it might happen this weekend, but so far so good. I think we had 60+ mph winds that night and I could hear trees on falling in the forest!

      Most of the town shut down today for cleanup and the winds and now is now slowing down.
      Whew. I think we got over 6 inches last night. It was up to Charlie's chin this morning and that would make it at least 6.

      LOL. Hannah was so brave to follow me for chores!
      Thanks for checking in!

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  4. That is a horizontal blizzard! I was inside during one in North Dakota once, 50 miles from the Canadian border. Please stay safe. Consider stilts for the pups. Linda in Kansas

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  5. Sleet is no fun, that's for sure. When you're outside in it, it hurts when it hits your face.

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  6. Wow, that's really something! Glad you and all of your fur-family are doing okay. The weather looks appalling. We have heavy rain right now. We had a tornado watch but that's disappeared thankfully, and the high winds prediction has gone down from 81 mph to 35 mph. Love your dinosaur pic. That cardinal really pops against the snow. Take good care of yourselves. I'm sure Charlie and Hannah are happily snuggling up.

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  7. Good for you to find stuff to do indoors! What a mess. (ツ) from Jenn Jilks , ON!

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  8. Anonymous6:24 PM

    I'm not looking forward to getting your weather. Stay warm. Lori

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  9. Anonymous6:15 PM

    LD...You have some wonderful photos here. Love the cardinal and the mules of course. We got that wind also even though we didn't have so much snow. It blew so strongly for forever.

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  10. I hope the rest of your day brought fun. Glad the pups are getting on.

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