Preppers

BEFORE THE BLANKET: Thursday, a good portion of our day was spent prepping for the weekend. It wasn't exactly like packing for a vacation or a party, though. Rather, it was laying in supplies and readying the homestead for a predicted foot of snow. 

One of the first things we did was move firewood from the Back Forty to our back porch. We decided stacking wood on a sled and then dragging it across the frozen yard and snow covered patio was our best bet. 

We also scraped lots of ice off stairs and our patio, and unearthed a cold one in the process. Annabelle said it wasn't entirely frozen solid - she could see a little movement and bubbles inside.

We also had a few more supplies to procure, such as birdseed, since we wouldn't want our feathered friends to go hungry during the snowstorm. We made the Very Poor Choice of going to Wal-Mart for said supplies. Public Service Announcement: You do not ever, under any circumstances, want to go to Wal-Mart the day before a snowpocalypse. It was a freaking circus, with empty shelves and meat cases and Christmas Eve-length check out lines. All we could do was grin and bear it. 

The good news is, we're about as ready as we can be. We're about to find out just how much snow we're going to get. Stay tuned. ...