Snow horse Sculpture!

I have always wanted to do this and never thought Id get the chance to again or have enough snow to do it! but the snow finally was sticky enough so Penny and I started to build a snow unicorn..... Its almost life size but we got pretty pooped out and today the snow isn't sticking so good.. I think it got to cold last night so after it snows later tonight or tomorrow I will  or hopefully "we" will finish it. ...( its fun ahinvg someone to do this with!) I plan on him having an icicle horn! thats will look so cool. It was really alot of fun and if my back wasn't killing me from bending so much I could have done it for hours! I love to sculpt big like this but it is alot of work, so I will post pictures of the finished unicorn hopefully tomorrow sometime.

OK... the photo above you is the barn loft ( of which part of it is above my apartment) and the expensive orchard grass hay that got wet when the wind/snow storm came thru and the wind blew snow in thru vents in the loft. all of this was originally stacked up near the back, but when penny went up to throw a bale down and saw the hay covered in snow!!! ..well there went 4 hours! I heard them up there banging around and wondered what the heck they were doing? working on my frozen hot water pipe?  so I went out a little later and found out.. then they asked me to come help.. we got all the wettest bales and would bang them against the floor.....this seemed to get most of the snow off that was stuck in the bale. Penny and Rick had already spent 2 hours shoveling and brushing snow off of them.. and it was a big pile of snow too!.. so rick pounded and penny and I swept it up, the we filled buckets with the loose hay so it didn't go to waste and fed that to the horses, we also put the wet bales on end and separated them to dry hopefully and they will get fed 1st. We also gave 2 bales to the girl with the horse were trying to help. She was able to get her horse out of there and move it to a neighbors until we can get it here. That may not be till next week .. ( and she will be turing in the owner of the other 2 horses that are starving). We met her and her boyfriend when they came to pick them up last night and they seem like really nice people. 

Penny made it out for work but rick took his truck to get more diesel and got stuck in the driveway. we tried to pull it out with a tractor but that didn't work so he is calling for help right now..so Im hoping the propane guys don't show up till its out! We did lose power the night before last at 11 at night till 8 in the morn but I had propane so I was warm.. I still have a small amount but im saving it in case we lose power..Im using electric heaters till then. And yes Im being very safe. 
Here is a view of the arena from the barn loft. We opened the doors to sweep the snow out. How pretty! I had to run and get the camera!
Here is the driveway that goes around the arena that we don't use when it snows. The trees and building you see in the far distance is the vets farm across the street.
Heres what the driveway looked like after the wind/snow storm.. yep. all the paths are gone! Rick got he tractor out to pull the vet out of the ditch and he also kind of plowed the driveway somewhat. No way would anyone get in or out f he hadn't!
Heres a picture of the old homestead house I talked about in a previous post. see the roof caved in on the left.. that was from 2 large cedar trees falling into it from a big wind storm years quite a few years back. I think I lived in phoenix when that happened.

I have lots more pics to post but Ill do that later today.For some reason Blogger doesn't like to post photos..It takes me 2 or 3 trys to get one pics up sometimes..I don't know if its just busy or what the problem is, its one reason I wasn't posting as often as I wanted to. But I have a small trick that helps some... anyways.. looks like Christmas is on hold this year.. we will get together later for a special dinner when we can get out and about. 

So look for another post later today.