I'd rather be sunburned and covered in skeeter bites trying to figure out how to stomp a copperhead in flipflops with my other foot in a fire ant mound than have to deal with ice and freezing rain.
Pouring rain/freezing rain here currently but at least the electricity is still on and we have heat in the house. Well and tank are probably not frozen but the main line that enters the house is busted, as is the whole house filter, even tho it was wrapped and has never frozen before.
I have 5 bags of cubes left but I can't get any more hay out right now. My ground is not frozen enough to run the tractor over.
Another night and day and they'll get fed proper but at least I have few enough that they all fit under roof. 18 mommas, 1 bull, 8 calves of various ages. No newborns that I know of.
This too shall pass.
I will be busy next week helping to get my 2 sister's water back working.
One evacuated to her son's place down at Crosby but says she turned the well off and drained all the pipes in the house. The other sister's water froze up when the power went off so all her piping under the house froze. Her house sits right down on the ground, maybe 18" off the ground. Not sure I can fit under it.