Jam Packed Snow Day

The weather was frigid for our walk this morning. We needed to take a break to warm up inside Joan's igloo.

Above Karin is heading inside while Faith, mom and I wait to squeeze inside to warm up in this 2 room igloo built by the Reinhards. Below Diane is coming out.

 Mom and Molly's turn to head out and below that Joan and Diane are peeking out of the second room.

 The second room is large enough to easily get 4 adults in. Diane, Joan and I were very comfortable inside with room for more. Below we are heading into the second room. Diane is inside taking the picture and mom is on the outside looking in.

 Faith posing in the entrance. Can you tell she is pretty proud of this house?

After the walk I had to head down to work on the Berean letters. On Thursday Emily, Eva Jean, Shirley and Rachel got all the studies processed and the letters read but the letters still needed to be entered and the labels printed for the Bibles. There were 254 request that came in last week. Hopefully those will get mailed out tomorrow with what ever request came in since Thursday.
Meanwhile Rachel was hosting a taffy pull for all the snow bound kids at the compound. Below is Joan pulling with Mackenson and Diane pulling taffy with Faith.

I didn't get to go pull but enjoyed the fruits of their labor. Since we labeled the taffy as fruit we could all feel good about enjoying the sweet treat.  Anna and her colt were put outside so I could clean the stall. This was the first time they had been out since the snow fell. The colt was hilarious, he went bounding around the paddock then bent down and blew the snow up into his face. He popped his head up quickly as if to ask, "what in the world IS this cold stuff?"

Killian's reaction to the colt was even more funny. It looks like he is having a big laugh at the antics.

Both Anna and the colt had a good time running in the snow. 

Killian's waterer was frozen. Emily found the problem, the breaker had popped. He didn't seem very thirsty so hopefully it had just happened. Emily and Karin headed to John's tonight to castrate his 5 month old bull calf. Tomorrow we will get to hear how that went. I got the car stuck in a snow drift this afternoon so the first thing Mark and Rhoda had to do when they got home was help push it out. Winter sure does make things hard. On a good note, David Sauder came over and fixed our leaking hot water pipe. We can have hot water again, just in time to do more laundry.