We Have Reached Ludicrous Temperatures

I'm so late with this post.

Oh well.

These are a few pictures from the days when we had temps in the -20's.

Wind chills were in the -30's or colder.

Those are ludicrous temperatures.

It was so cold we decided to house the ducks in the basement for a few days.

Not ideal but it kept them from freezing to death.

We got a large tarp and surrounded it with a make-shift fence.

AKA one hog panel, an old table top, and a couple of boxes.

Not pretty but it worked.

All went well the first night.

It was funny to hear them quacking all the time...

including throughout the night.

Thankfully, it didn't keep us awake.

Of course our power went out the morning it was supposed to start getting super cold.

Without power the chickens had no heat lamp.

So they were brought inside as well.

The chickens weren't so thrilled.

At least they didn't jump the fence!

We had Pepper inside too... so that meant we had every animal we own in our basement!

Pepper hates being inside.

She would sit at the top of our basement steps and whine through the door.

She was very happy when we set her free!

This was from one of our attempts at going to school.

They cancelled school when we got to the end of our road.

It was bad that morning.

I'm hoping were past the worst part of winter.

There's always a snow/ice event the last part of February to first part of March.

I know we're not out of the woods yet.

However, each day is one day closer to spring!