Was stupid cold here this morning. We hit about 25 with a wind chill of 15 when I got up at 2ish to let Gracie out to potty. Last night was the first night she's been left in the house without being crated...and she did well. Nothing was out of place. So proud of her!
It felt weird walking on solid mud...except for when I broke through the ice and started slip sliding. Couple days ago I got totally stuck in the mud....and I'm not even exaggerating. I saw a couple of chickens that tried to sneak into the boars pen and steal some feed and they paid for it. They were stuck up to their bellies in the mud soup. I went in to try to rescue them and I almost never came out! The mud was to the top of my boots - so at least 10 inches deep.
One of the boars bumped me and I went down - right on top of the other boar, lol. I didn't even get muddier because he just stood there with his face in the feed trough and supported me until I could get myself upright. I could NOT get my boots out of the mud unless I reached down with one hand (while the other hand held on to the fence) and physically pulled my boot out of the mud. Had to do that several times before I was able to get back to semi-solid ground. Good thing those AGH's are so darn friendly. The next day one went right between my legs to get to the feed trough (after I moved them to another pen) and I ended up sitting on him. He didn't care - just kept right on eating.
I totally forgot to take care of my house plants on the back porch.
Hope the Aloe Vera will survive, but it's not looking too wonderful. Hope the others will come back from the roots. Need to check on my little tomato plant -but it's doubtful that it survived last night. This has been the coldest weather we've had in 3 years. As much as it's a PIA - we needed a hard freeze to control the garden predators and everything else! Hope it will knock down the parasite count in the pasture too.
Maddie, with her heavy Pyr coat, seems to thrive in this weather. She was out patrolling last night. Cowboy seems to be ok with it too. He was out with the gang when I went outside this morning and Maddie was tucked up between two round bales resting after her late night.
Piglets loved the pile of hay that I threw down for them yesterday. They didn't know if they should play in it, crawl under it or eat it, lol. They were all out foraging this morning when I got outside. (I kinda slept in a little bit - my bed was too warm to crawl out of)
Some of the does are really starting to show their baby bellies. Cocoa is looking like a tubbo already. Not even sure if Red is bred though. If so, I doubt that she's gonna pop out trips like she has the last couple years. I'm ok with that.
Bout to get ready to watch the Texans game. Go TEXANS!
Snuggies & all, still too cold to like. 
I'm like you, not used to the cold those northerners endure. I could not do it!!!!
