We have been waiting for another delivery of hay for the past few weeks and we were down to around 10 bales. Baring in mind that we use 6 a day the situation was getting desperate.

We managed to tie the farmer down to Thursday as a delivery date, but our long driveway to the barn would have to be clear for the truck and wagon to get down to the barn.

The snow blower has yet again broken down and we had no way of moving the snow.

Our friend who is a heavy duty mechanic called in after work on Tuesday to fix the snow blower and for once couldn't fix it.

He said not to worry he would return the next day and revive it.

When he returned the next day, he brought in the big guns, one of the big toys from work. A skid steer.

Anyway after several hours and a few times getting it stuck on the ice they cleared the drive and we got our hay delivered on Thursday just in time to beat the next storm, which came in on Friday night.

It started to snow about 8:30pm, just as I was getting the horses in for the night.

It was forecast to turn to several hours of freezing rain during the night.

And sure enough when we got up on Saturday the whole of the driveway was covered in 3 to 4 inches of pure ice.

This is a close up of a piece of  a gate.Y

ou can see why an ice storm is so dangerous. The ice just moulds itself around everything it touches.

If it goes on for long enough it brings down power lines.

Fortunately we didn't have it that bad - this time.

We spent the afternoon breaking up ice in the top of the friveway so we could get the car out and were completely exhausted by the end of the day.

I keep telling myself that winter is nearly over. Just a few weeks more and spring will be here.

I hope.