Sunday 11th June 2006
Did normal farm stuff, we'd just dried off all but 50 of the cows so milking only taking about an hour and a half once a day, the rest of time moving breaks, and feeding out, which basically involved me sitting in the tractor! Not a bad life! The weather was a bit odd, a really warm norwester followed by freaking gales on the runoff that almost knocked me over a good few times! Then it started raining and was still raining when I went to bed...
Monday 12th June 2006
woke up to literally 4ft of snow! You know how you can always tell when its snowed, its deathly quiet and sort of blue reflections especially if its still dark, well it was just like that! I didn't think it was too deep til I saw my boss walking through it up to his waist! There was no power although at that point the phones were still going, so I wentover to the boss's house for a hot breakfast cooked on her log fire before headingn out to see if we could find the cows!
A more immediate problem was finding the fence lines, all completely buried, and getting deeper by the minute! The power was off so we had to try and make sure all the cows were still on the farm, counting and recounting! It was so deep at the runoff we didn't get up there for 2 days!
