Finally Home Again

It is Monday night and we just got home from Wishards. There is so much more snow up north. We got up there on Sat. morning and got busy.

Annie and Ris loaded feed in the tractor and fed some calves.

It was overcast out, but we had big plans for the day.

While the girls were doing that, the guys quickly fixed a U joint in this pickup. I watched.

Then we headed down to the new house to spend the rest of the day working on it. Here Ris and Annie break the trail down to the new house.

The fog was heavy and tons of snow made it hard to see the trail sometimes.


















There is sooo much snow in that country.

So we worked on the house all day Saturday and Sunday. We had heard there would be a blizzard on Sunday night, so we intended to leave earlier so we could drive while it was still light. We were all so busy that we forgot about that plan and left after dark.

When we finally got onto the highway, the roads were slick in spots, the wind was horrible.

And the visibility was pretty poor. Okay, the visibility was about 10 feet.

By the time we turned south of Faith, I had to stick my head out the passenger side window to find an approach that we could use to turn around on as we had the horsetrailer too. We slid past two approaches and got pulled into the third.




We decided to go back to Wishard's that night. Randen was happy to see us again!

Today we called work and told them that we weren't going to make it. There was a couple more inches of snow. The wind was howling, the pickup wouldn't start, and the wind chill was -30 degrees. So we ate pancakes and spaghetti, watched movies, and played with Big R. Annie and Randen did a little cleaning.

We finally got the pickup started and we made our second attempt to leave. We made it about 10 yards down the driveway and got majorly stuck in a big drift.

Here, Annie is digging out.




After we got out of that drift, we hit the main road. It is a couple miles to the highway and we busted huge drifts the entire way. We hit one particular drift with the full onion; it was about bumper-high. We got through it, but it messed things up.

We got to the highway and pulled over. The serpentine belt had come off. Matt got it put back on, but the batteries in the pickup are old and it wouldn't restart. A guy in Lantry tried to jump-start the pickup, but it wouldn't turn over. Joe showed up and he was able to get it jump-started. We were on our way again. The rest of the trip was nice and uneventful.

We can't wait for summer!