It was 9 this morning here. But, that is typical for this area. How awful for the Southern States, especially Florida and the crops. Next month is the Strawberry Festival in Plant City, FL and hopefully, the crop was spared too much damage.
The horses have been let out everyday with blankets on. They just get too crazy when kept in. Even though they do not do much running, as there is about 10 inches of snow on the ground As long, as the wind is not blowing too much and not a real wet snow. We have had sunshine for the last two days and thats a real treat. I am going to get a round bale to put out for them.
We have a heat tape on our water hydrant in the barn, so far, so good. It would be such a pain to haul water.
Bob and I were talking about the weather over coffee this morning. Tomorrow marks 30 days that the snow has been sitting in our yard.
Our horses are going crazy with it, they’ve eaten three wood posts out of boredom. The llama and the goat have a path worn between their house and the fence where their water is and where they get fed.
My niece in the Florida panhandle was talking about the very cold temps and the frozen pipes at her house. I just can’t imagine how heartbreaking it must be for citrus growers to watch their orchards die. I’m guessing a lot of the regular landscape plants won’t make it through the cold temps either.
Bob finally got our faucet at the water troughs thawed out and is going to put heat tape on it today. We’ve never had them freeze before.