So, one of the reasons we decided to spend the late Fall and early winter in Texas (besides visiting family in Austin during the upcoming holidays) was that the average temperatures for December here supposed to be around 63 during the day and lows of 40’s overnight. Last night, it got down in the 20s, and we had rain, sleet, ice, and by this morning, snow on the ground! We were stunned to wake up several times during the night to the sound of thunder! Can’t remember ever hearing thunder when the temperatures are so cold. Have you every experiences thundersnow?? Weird. Everything was covered with a layer of ice, couldn’t get the truck door open, Hubby had trouble getting the tack room door open, he needed a tool to do it. The tarps we had put up on the corral had become a solid sheet of ice, and unfortunately, the wind had blown a lot of rain into Clio’s stall, so we moved here and Apollo over to drier stalls. We’re not too worried about anyone else coming in to ride today… We’re a bit worried about one tree that hangs directly over us that looks pretty dead, and if it gets a lot of weight on it, might come crashing down, but we’re keeping our fingers crosses that doesn’t happen! Highs today to stay around freezing, and more cold all weekend, with, what the NOAA calls, a “wintry mix.” Not quite what we signed up for, but then again, we’ve been pretty fortunate with the weather mostly this year. Gotta say, though, Florida’s looking mighty fine right now… : -). Too bad we decided to winter in Arizona starting in January, even there it’s extra cold so far this year. Hope things improve as the winter goes on!
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