Right as the storm is arriving. 
This is about 7:00 p.m.
We don't very often get a blizzard warning, especially in November, but this year is different. It looked like maybe it wasn't coming but by about 4:00 p.m. it was here. It came in sideways and swirled around. The snow blew up against every window in the house. We were just hoping we didn't lose electricity because we haven't had a fire in the fireplace for twenty years and it wouldn't be a good time to test out our old chimney. It was over by about 10:00 p.m. and dumped about six inches on us.
The next couple of days, it got down to -10 degrees at night. Talk about add insult to injury. That was not too fun. We had a calf born on Thanksgiving morning. It was 8 degrees and there was a foot of snow where he landed. Bryan and I happened to be there and waited for him to arrive. We scooped him up and put him on a pile of hay and let mama do the rest. When we came back to check on him around 4:00 he was up nursing and looking good. We put him in the pick-up and hauled him to the calving shed for the night. He loved the straw and burrowed down into it immediately. The cow was a little more trouble to get in, but we got her.
You got it much worse than we did. But it hit here just about the same way. Unfortunatly Whit and I really didn't believe it was going to be that bad, so we headed to the farm about the time it hit, lets just say there were a few white knuckle moments,and a 30 minute drive turned into a 1 hour and 30 minute drive, but we made it and had a good time laughing, better than crying. Thank goodness for cell phones, Scott kept in constant contact, I think he was more nervous than Whit and I.
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