Peaceful Pastures Farm

For the past two days it has been a little warmer and the snow has mostly slid off our metal barn roof.  Thank God, what a relief! Today, my 10 year old daughter, Shannon and I, waded thru hip high snow to fix fence in the sacrifice lot.  (The sacrifice lot is a paddock a little smaller than an acre where the horses or cows can go out to when they'd otherwise make a mess of the pastures used to grow feed).  Snow had pulled down the wires and even a couple of posts were leaning over.  Yesterday, I tried to find a place to put manure.  I thought I could dig a path with the skidloader to an embankment to dump the manure, but I got the skid stuck in my first effort at a scoop.  Out came the shovel.....  I got the skidloader out, but some more snow will have to melt before I can haul the stuff away from the barn.  I dumped one load onto the front yard, but the snow is piled up so high there also, that I had to give that up.  The bucket of the loader had snow and manure mixed and frozen into the bucket so I carried about 12 buckets of boiling hot water and poured it into the bucket, trying to get it all out.  What I'd really like to know is, How do I stay so fat?!