Single Digits!!!

Wow, my hope that we wouldn't see many more days of below 20F weather were completely shattered this week. Two nights ago it got down to 14.4F - the lowest we had yet to see. We protected as best we could and things went smoothly. Last night was even worse - our weather station reported 9.8F! Single digit temperature! This morning's chores were rough...



While the animals and the garden were tucked in nicely, we did forget one thing. Being city slicker Texans, we failed to remember that the well house needed a little protection! The line from the well was completely frozen solid and we had no water! It wasn't so bad, but I had planned on bringing all the animals buckets of warm water in the morning to help melt their troughs. So everyone had to wait on water until we got a heat lamp in the well house to thaw it out. And of course, the sheep didn't care - they just licked their ice block until warm water was delivered!

The garden doesn't look like it took a very hard hit - we might have lost a few lettuces but that's it. We'll have to see when everything warms up and we uncover the whole lot!