What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?

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Today, the ground was covered by a lot of rotten apples. OK at first in the morning when all was frozen, but by noon, talk about a slippery mess!
 
Hovered around freezing today, cold wind cutting through. But not cold enough to freeze the ground, so everything is marshy / muddy. Got stuck after dumping, got out on some shoveled wood chips + the usual snow techniques.
 
Generally we just use water tanks with overflows. Pump runs all the time. Our cows are using a tank like that.


Our bulls right now are eating some snow and watering out of springs.

Up until today our calves and bred heifers were watering out of a spring too. We brought them home and put them in a time out.


The cattle maintain a drinking hole in the ice around those springs.

In years past you would chop ice at a reservoir. Cattle would water once a day.

Out pits are poisoned now so we dont mess with them.
 
High of 22˚F here today, light freezing rain coating everything. The private lake where we are working has a nice, fresh sealed blacktop road, very little traveled. No plow trucks or salting going on for the first half of the day, so it was slicker than snot coming in. Chip truck fishtailed, but made it in. 4x4 pickup barely made it, slipped off the road toward the grass 3x before making it in. Main roads are fine after being salted & sanded.
 
Milder now, got up to just below freezing, now back down to 26 F. or so. Only supposed to be a few degrees colder tonight...but the next full week is forecast for snow every day/night. Not heavy, but constant.

We finally have some winter. I sure hope the snow pack up high builds to something close to normal this year.
 
That is something we don't ever really see here. And certainly not an inch worth. Small things to be thankful for as it's -20c again this morning.
 
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