I seem to be on a blogging frenzy of late. I guess it helps me to put down my thoughts. Not much to this blog, just a simple statement, I hate cold weather. Sometimes, in the middle of the summer, when it is 105F or so, I hate hot weather more than the cold, but today, I am pretty certain I hate the cold more than the hot. I am sure those readers up north don't have much sympathy for me, it gets alot colder in other places....to them I say, that is your problem, you live there!!! I couldn't stand Canada in the winter, I am sure of that. The 4F we have right now is cold enough for me.
It isn't so much the effect of the cold on me, I can bundle up to the point I look like an arctic explorer. It is the effect of the cold on everything else. The constant fretting about whether or not the heat is on in the well house. Hydraulics that take forever to warm up so you can do anything. The certain knowledge that nothing that isn't plugged in is going to start. You find all your weak things in this first cold snap, from weak batteries to weak cows. The strings are frozen to the bales, that always gets me to cussing. Little things like giving a sick calf a shot are tougher, sometimes the antibiotic will freeze in the needle if you draw it out too long before you can use it.
Hay rings are froze down, plastic buckets break easily if you are rough with them. Frozen cow pies will trip you if you are not careful, waterers freeze up if everything isn't drained properly. Keeping the house warm requires lots of $$$, and even the dogs are miserable, we brought one into the house last night. I wonder what land costs in Florida??