Well, Monday’s weather was an improvement. It started with a new blanket of snow–about an additional inch.

freshly filled with snow overnight
Later in the day, the weather brought a lot of sunshine.

It was even enough to start the snow melting from the barn roof and leave us with icicles.

2TC, Chiffon, and Onyx’s back end
There was less wind, but it was still really cold.

Cupid and the goose braving the cold to nibble some leftover hay before I fed them.
But if you could find a place out of the wind with the sun shining on you, it was pretty not horrid.

Aphrodite

Maybeline

Caroline
It hovered around 10°F for most of the day.

Chiffon hoping to be invited in the milk room.
But it was an improvement, and doing chores wasn’t quite so bad.

Purl eating hay outside
I’m still climbing over the dutch door with a couple of bales of hay because I have no desire to shovel that huge drift in this cold.

The birds have a big drift in their doorway also.

Everyone is still hanging in there, but I am worried about Mr. Peacock.

Overall, chores were a lot easier today.

She decided this new snow was better to take a snow bath

2TC eating hay; the rest of the bale behind her was still waiting to be spread out.
I still can’t believe how much snow blew into the barn.

Flora
I still have my girls in the garage.

Dolly and Victoria finishing up the sweet feed

Pretzel, Heidi, and Ostara sharing a tub of hay
It’s worked well to have Xerxes and Antigone together. They get along well, and it’s much easier for Antigone to get enough to eat.

Xerxes

Antigone
Frodo and Penelope are happy to snuggle together.

Frodo and Penelope snuggling together
Everyone is starting to thaw out. And we’re really supposed to start warming up now.
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