{SnOw DaY #5 2011!!} The Defrost Has Begun...

 ...and since the kids and I have been indoors for most of the week, we decided to take a trip to town.  Here's how it went. This is one of the good roads we traveled on to get into our closest town.  This is good. My husband said that yesterday it was only a one lane road. 

 These are chicken houses. We have them everywhere in the south.  

 This is a cabin up in the woods, around where we live.  It is really gorgeous from this view. 

 Same road, further down.

 Heading into town, we pass alot of families and their farms/homes.

 This used to be used as a chicken house and now many, like this, are used as barns and storage for the retired farmers and their families.

 To the right of this little house is a small cattle and horse farm.  Their pond is nearly iced over. A few more days of these cold temps and we could have skated on this pond.

 Our town is a farming town.  This is the town's livestock sales barn.  Every Saturday and Tuesday they either have horses/mules or cattle and other livestock going up for auction.  You can purchase tack and feed and sometimes small equipment here.

 Finally, we are in town.  Here is our favorite gas station.  Chevron. The owner, Miss Dorothy, is a precious lady.  She always makes a fuss over the kids and insists they have a treat when they come in the store...either a slushy, hot cocoa or other treat.  She keeps her station so clean and the parking lot extremely tidy.  She sweeps it herself and always talks with her customers.  Kinda old fashioned, don't cha think? We absolutely love that about her. 

 Yes, we have a walmart super store.  We don't shop there very often though.  My husband does work at a local grocery store, you know.  I just took the picture because of the amount of snow to see. Any parking lots in town are filled with piles of snow.

 We drove out to the other side of town and this was the view.  Very gorgeous land with all that snow.  Thankfully, the town has had many people getting the main roads back into shape for travel. 

 Coming back through, we saw this drive-thru. It was piled high too.  Very different for our community.

 One of the snow piles.  It's bigger than it looks here. 

Back home, the horses needed watering, and they love the icy cold snow.  They've been eating it right out of our hands. 

  The defrost has begun and maybe by the end of the weekend it will be gone. 

 Last night our low was 7 degrees. It's up to 42 right now! That's really great. And by Monday our forecast says, "High of 47." We might make it up there. 

{MoRe To CoMe!!}