Can winter be over yet?

I HATE SNOW. I mean really can not stand it.  When I was younger I liked snow because it meant no school and sledding.  Now snow just means that my job is going to be twice as difficult.  Cows don't like snow.  And if there's snow on the ground, that means all the water sources are frozen.  This means I have to break ice.  Usually I can break the ice open with a rock or my foot.  The coldest temperature we've had this winter was -13 and that was a day that the axe had to be brought out to break open the ice.  Breaking ice with an axe is my youngest sister's, Brenda, favorite thing to do.  I think it's just because dad trusts her with an axe, but at least someone enjoys it. 

We have now had snow on the ground for 6 days and the temperature hasn't been above freezing for just as long.  To make things even better we got 3 more inches early this morning.  Normally in Kansas the snow doesn't stick around this long because it warms up.  I'm starting to feel like my good friend Liz who lives in Wisconsin and has more snow than she knows what to do with.  Brenda had two snow days last week and she got today off too.  For her this means she got called into the farm to help out with everything.  She lives with my husband and I.  My awesome husband brought her out to the farm on his way to work. 

A lot of people don't realize that farmers have to be out in all kinds of weather.  I've actually been asked if I get snow days.  The person that asked just didn't quite understand that the cows still need milked even if the only way to get to the farm is to put the truck in four wheel drive and try to find the roads that haven't been drifted shut yet.  Farmers are some kick ass people to get out in all kinds of weather. 

I do think that snow is pretty.... At least until I have to go outside into it.  And once it gets below 20 degrees outside it's just too damn cold.  I'm a much bigger fan of winters where it never gets below 30 degrees, but sadly that doesn't happen here.  I'm a person who is much better at sweating my ass off.  If I can pick between 100 degree days and 5 degree days, I'm going for the 100 degree weather.  My friend Liz is from Wisconsin so she is much better equipped for the cold than I will ever be.  Basically my chant until spring shows up is, "Let's move to Florida! Or anywhere else that it never snows."  Below is a picture of all this awful snow in our milk cow pasture.  Which is proof that the snow can be beautiful no matter how much I despise it.