It's Snowing Again...

I grew up on a farm with woods over half of it. But, mom didn't care how far we roamed in the countryside around us. As long as we didn't bother the cattle, the neighbors never cared if we wandered around on their property, either. They'd call mom and tell her when they were putting bulls in the pastures around our farm so she could warn us away from that area. There was a creek running though our farm we could play in and the cattle could drink from but we also had two ponds. In the winter, the ponds would freeze over and we could skate on them. That was always cool. We had horses and Shetland ponies we could ride and it was mostly dirt roads all around us. We'd have to ride a mile to reach blacktop roads. Mom didn't mind if we rode along the highway as long as we stayed off the blacktops. A lot of the time we'd go riding with friends either on bicycles or on horses.

@DaddyEvil I love it, surely enjoyed that. I never really heard you talk like that before. yeah, that place is magical for stuff like that.Its probably where I belong, but life is hard and some things you do not want to see again either if you know what I mean.

@crossbones27 You would have been welcome to come stay with us... Mom and dad always had extra people living with us. They took in our friends when they needed a place to stay and let them stay as long as they needed/wanted. They'd treat you like one of their kids, assigning chores and expected help with the cattle or horses. That's the way I treated Pretty's friends when she was growing up, too. I took in several girls who needed a place to stay when their parents were having trouble. One woman "fell in love" with a dude she met online and took off with him. The husband dropped his daughter off with use and chased the mom for over a year. When it was time to enroll his daughter in school, I had to write to him and ask him to sign custody to me so I could take her to the doctor, get her shots and put her back in school again. He sent me custody papers back in the mail... She lived with us for a couple of years until her older sister was old enough to take custody of her (19 in Missouri back then.) and raise her at her home.

I'm not going outside! It is nice and warm in our house. We keep the temp inside at 74F/23C. I hope you're staying comfortable there.

We need some freezing weather or the bugs won't die off and they drive us crazy the next summer. I really wish it wouldn't snow any more, though. I'm glad it's comfortable for you there.

Thank you. I don't plan on going outside until everything is melted off again.

I'm sorry that's happening there. Pretty made a doctor appointment for me in a couple of days but I'm cancelling the appointment if there is still snow on the ground. She walked to our doctor's office a couple of days ago but my balance isn't good lately so I'm not going outside until either the snow/ice is gone or somebody else carries me outside. (If somebody is carrying me outside, then I won't care... )

We have big mounds here in parking lots and along the edges of the streets where the graders pushed the snow when they cleared the streets. At least the streets look clear from our windows now.

@DaddyEvil - A cold wind is horrible, you can feel the cold in your bones.

@LadyDuck Just the sound of the cold wind made me feel colder even though my bedroom is still the same temp it was before I could hear the wind blowing.

It's 5:30 am and 3F/-16C outside. At least it stopped snowing and it doesn't look like there is very much accumulation this time. But there is a cold wind blowing. I can hear it...