Enough Winter Already

It is March 17th and the main sliding barn doors are still frozen into the ground. Since the beginning of January we have had to use an alternate entrance into barn. The inconvienence is biggest when need to carry the 25KG feedbags through two gates while not letting dogs in or alpacas out. The second pain is the light switch of course is near the main doors not the side entrance which means you need a flash light for those early mornings or late evenings. In our 6 years in Nova Scotia we have never experienced a winter this cold for this long. We used to often get a week of rain after a week of cold which I previously hated as it always ruined the snow for skiing. A week of rain a couple of times to melt the snow this year would have been a blessing since we still have a foot or more cover in all but the most exposed places.