More weather moving in.
Cindy was going to stay in town yesterday afternoon when she got off work as she didn’t want to drive in bad weather or get stormed in here, away from her job. She HATES not getting to work. Not so much for the money, as she feels like she is letting her co-workers down and the person who has to come in an replace her. She called me and I looked at our forecast on the internet at the gridpoint forecast for NOAA weather, which is 90% accurate, seems like.
I told her she would be fine to come home and still be able to get back in the morning (this morning) as the wind and snow wasn’t going to do much until about 8 am. She is usually in town by 5:30 to 5:45. I told her if it was too bad in the morning, I would drive her in with the 4×4. So she came home.
Well, she left this morning and called from Punkin Center to tell me the roads sucked and I needed to come get her and take her on in. So I got dressed, went out and unhooked from the trailer and headed out. Snow was really coming down and the wind was blowing it harder than they had predicted for this early. I called her on the cell phone and told her to head back home and I’d meet her half way and break a trail for her, as I was pretty sure I could get IN to town, but was worried about getting myself BACK with my poor tires with not much tread on them. I hadn’t thought of that last night when I told her she’d be fine. And I put too much faith in a forecast, which I seldom do. But if the forecast isn’t quite what it sez it will be, it doesn’t usually make much of a difference to me. Doesn’t matter if it’s colder or windier than they say, I still need to get the stock all fed. Not really too big a deal.
So she followed me home and will probably be snowed out tomorrow also, from the sounds of thing. Crap! Now I feel bad for screwing up her day/days. She has an understanding boss and co-workers, but we sure hate to let people down.
Hope is supposed to head down to where Chance is today, with her sister and brother in law, to box up all their things and load them in the trailer for the move to the new job. I hope they wait a day or two until this storm passes.
Sounds like another 6 to 8 inches of snow and of course the wind is supposed to gust up in the 25 mph range. But maybe they will be wrong about that too! 🙂
Never trust a, lying weather man, if your life depends on it. 😉
Dennisranch 
No one can blame you for wanting your wife home with you. 🙂
Stay warm! We’ve got snow too, but it’s much lighter than what we got over the weekend.
Yep, weather prognosticators LIE!!! “70% chance of snow, up to six inches possible.” Which means we get three flakes. Hey, they didn’t lie – they just said it was possible!
When I was cowboying, I worked alone alot of the time and this is the way I doctored everything. It worked good on all sizes of cattle and with most horses, there are always some that are just dinks. I was running an outfit and had a guy working for me that was new to cowboying, but had a lot of try. He wasn’t very big, and always had a tough time of tailing down the bigger critters. It was pretty comical at times watching him.
You’d love a=hanging around me than Hoss as I am old and fat and have a hard time too. Once in awhile I look over and my horse is laying on the ground laffing at me. 😉