I spent 11 hours today shoveling snow.  First I had to dig out the 4 foot snow drifts that were blocking the front and back doors of the goat barn just to get into it.  Then i shoveled more snow in the goat and chicken yards throwing down dry hay so they could have a place to play outside.  My back is so fried and my fingers hurt just typing this.  After caring for all the animals I then moved on to shoveling the snow drifts out of our driveway. Normally I wouldn't have but were running low on propane and we need the truck able to get in.  At this point I was ready to pass out.  

     Once that was done I had to walk to our mailbox hoping my medicines made it since the mailbox is on the county maintained part of our road.  I had to walk (total of a mile) in some knee deep snow at spots to get there only to be disappointed.  Our road to our house is completely snowed in.  Luckily there is one other way out but we haven't tried it yet.  During my walk I passed a garbage truck that has been stuck on the road for days packed with snow halfway up the front grill of the truck.  A tow truck did come before and got stuck as well needing another tow truck to get him out.  In the pictures below I took a photo from our mailbox and you can see the stuck garbage truck way off in the distance from my walk.  As I was making my way back  a monster sized tow truck showed up and finally was able to pull him out.  I'm going to have snow shovel nightmares tonight I'm sure. I'm also going on strike and sleeping in tomorrow and hope I don't hurt to bad.  What a crazy storm.  Is it summer yet!?