We received more snow in NC than they have had in years, at least in the Piedmont area. Our snow measured about 10 inches on average. Coming from Colorado I was thrilled! I was working the day it started snowing and was able to leave early as soon as my husband texted me that we already had 7 inches. Bernini, my little Fiat 500, did fine in the snow until I got to our unplowed road. I basically drove and pushed the snow in front of me until it made a wall and then the little car was stuck.
Steve was home working so I could call him to get the tractor out and rescue us, otherwise I would have had to walk to our house and do it myself but I'm glad I had the option either way. He came down with Kevin, the Kubota, and plowed the snow from around the little car. Then I followed him home as he made a path for us and a path up our driveway.
Once home I had the pleasure of watching the ponies play in the snow. I don't know what it is about snow but they love it! Chance was running around while Daenerys was nuzzling me in hopes of treats.
Chance loves to put his lips on everything! He plays with water and hoses, humans he tries to groom etc. It wasn't a surprise that he wanted to lick the snow off the nearby pine tree, he was so cute and acted surprised when the branch eventually dropped a ton of snow on his face.
Dani like to roll in the snow but also just followed me around while I was out there. She was very much wanting the love. It was still pretty warm considering so later that night we had to dry the horses and blanket them for the colder temperatures that were to come that night. Leave it to NC to have rain and then snow fall followed by very freezing temperatures to make the roads lots of fun! Luckily I was done at work for the week so I could just stay home and enjoy the pretty snow.
The next day was gorgeous! The sky was so blue and the barn was it's pretty red color, I love where we live!
The barn roof had some neat patterns on the snow from the wind. Look how pretty it is! I'm so glad we finally painted the barn since it looks so nice!
Loki had fun helping us take care of the horses and he enjoyed bounding in the snow but also keeping to our path out to the barn. You can see how deep it was!
The ponies were toasty in their blankets and looking for their morning feeding. After a couple days the snow did mostly melt away and we have been enjoying the mud and muddy ponies. What fun. I'm glad we got the moisture, it will be good for our pastures. I always enjoy horses in snow though!
