Winter has arrived and made itself known, and for those many people who love the idea of a White Christmas, a wish granted. Tonight, the day was one minute longer than yesterday, and by February, the day will be almost 40 minutes longer than today.

That’s a good thing to focus on. But we have a lot more snow to get through today and tomorrow morning – 4 to 8 inches, and then some more on Monday morning. We are locked in at the farm, nowhere to go tomorrow, plenty of wood in the shed and food in the refrigerator.

Hopefully, we’ll get to a Christmas sing on Sunday, and hopefully, a movie on Monday. The afternoon feeding was a bit more complex than usual. We gave the sheep and donkeys grain to be warm – single digits tonight and Red kept order.

We fed the chickens in their roost and put warm water in an electric heated bowl in there for them. We gave the animals second cut hay for more warmth. We shoveled the walks, brushed off the cars and warmed their engines, and I scraped snow off the roof.

I also shoveled the back porch. I’m happy to say my angina is not troubled by shoveling a good thing for my heart. I’m grateful for Red on days like today – it would be hard to handle the rush for grain without him.

I think we’re in for the night except for letting the dogs go out a couple more times. Maria and I love snow storms, we love being in our sturdy farmhouse, with each other, I got two books to read today over the weekend.

I am grateful not to be cold and hungry tonight, and thinking of those who are. I hope to get to the Mansion this weekend to check in. I’ll be blogging throughout, storms are very beautiful here.