Snow Woes

As the season begins to turn really cold, and the icy mornings are becoming more unbearable each day (I practically sit on top of the heater at dairy), I am reminded of what is still to come. That terrible four letter word - SNOW.

 

A friend of mine recently blogged about the troubles we have in the midlands with rude snow tourists (click here to read her note), and in a show of solidarity I want to repost a note from my facebook that I added last year. She received a lot of negative comments on her blog and I think people who come from outside just have no cooking clue how kak snow is when we have to work outside all day or in a restaurant serving unappreciative, rude plonkers who can go home to a nice hot bath and electricity.

 

16 August 2012 at 13:23

I think very few people who travelled to the midlands last week to revel in the white wonderland actually realise the true devastation that such a snowfall causes. Those of you who moaned about unfriendly locals and terrible service clearly failed to realise that the area had no electricity for close on a week, that no delivery vehicles could get in or out, and that these unfriendly locals had probably not had a hot shower or cup of tea for almost 3 days. Did one of you even think to stop and offer a dirty, freezing farmer a cup of tea from your own flask? Did you even bother to talk to one of them and find out that milking 500 cows without electricity twice a day for almost a week, in knee-deep snow with unhappy and freezing cows and farm workers, can make someone slightly grumpy with people who damage fences and open gates to gain access to private land? Were any of you there at 10pm at night having to herd cows back into their field because some tourist had left a gate open? Did any of you wake up on Wednesday morning with a giant gum tree sticking into your roof? We understand that snow is a great excitement for a lot of people, but at least have the decency to realise that some of us have to work in it, and maybe next time, be polite enough to ask if you may drive down our drive way and park on our lawn to play in the snow. We don't appreciate being labelled grumpy and rude by ignorant trespassers. So we'll mend the fences that you broke, pick up all the rubbish that you left behind, take your criticism with a pinch of salt, and look forward to your visit next year.

  
P.S Nothing runs (over snowmen) like a Deere...

Looking forward to seeing you all this year - my tractor is primed...