The weather channels didn’t send out any warnings, there were no text alerts or advisories, they didn’t name this storm, but it was one of the ugliest and coldest and windiest in a long time, and it is going on still, the howling winds began early in the morning and blew a fine and freezing snow through every crack in every window and barn.

This is a testing winter, I feel every day for the animals, we opened up a big stall deep in the barn for shelter from the wind and the snow, we piled the ground with old hay, dragged the feeders inside the Pole Barn, my frostbitten fingers shrieked in protest, by the end of the day I couldn’t work the camera, it was frozen and so were my fingers. I’ll do an album shortly on Facebook.