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What Snow Storm?

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A nice cozy night on the farm last night.  A big fire keeping the house warm.  Ben and I arguing at 2am about who is going to go down and put another stick in the fire.   Waiting for the silver barn to crack in half and fly away in the HUGE ASS STORM HITTING SOUTHERN ONTARIO every channel was crapping their pants about the night before. Ben woke up shaking his head today.  The way the weather media promoted this ‘storm’ was not very accurate.  We are just laughing now because I swear immediately following the ‘end’ of the storm warning in our area, it began to snow!  I think we got all of 10 cm during the ‘storm’. Ben did get stuck with the tractor and plow once this morning, but I was able to pull him out with the ol’ dodge.  A few big drifts down our long laneway.  First thing in the morning I was laughing as Lady Bug our horse went sauntering by the house as if to say: “What storm?“   She wasn’t hiding in the barn, she was out and about and all over as usual. Her woolly mammoth