Winter storms are not big news up here, but I think we will all remember this one for a good long while. For a few  hours this afternoon, I though Mother Earth may have finally gotten fed up with us and decided to blow some of us away. She is relenting now, but it is still blowing and snowing.

I began the day by writing that I was grateful Maria was her to share this storm with me. Two people shoveling is a lot better than one, especially when the one is getting on and has sore knees and some heart issues. Still, I shoveled long and hard and hauled water and hay and had no trouble with it.

We visited the animals several times and felt badly for them. The Pole Barn protected them from the wind but not from the sound of the howling winds, which frightens them. We have enormous snow drifts around the farmhouse, our cars are buried. Millions of people had it worse than we did, we are grateful.

The truth is we had a nice day. We like working together, strategizing, fussing over the animals. We went outside, froze until we couldn’t bear it, came in and  had some tea, meditated. Maria is selling a ton of her new posters: “Show Your Soul,” and I actually worked all afternoon on my book, when I wasn’t running out and feeding animals, shoveling snow, brushing off cars or taking photos. The blog has a job to do, it does not rest.

This photo was taken with my new Petzval 58 lens, I chose to blur the background around Maria, she was good enough to decide to wear purple, my lens was grateful. She looks like she is walking out of the storm.

I made a simple dinner: we had hamburgers, salad, blue potatoes. We will read and nod off shortly, we both are wrecks. I think the worst of the storm is over, Spring really is just over the hill.