Winter is here to stay. . .

This is the fourth day of sub-zero weather and today it's began to snow again.  The picture above is of our pond west of the house along the drive.  It has been very low for months and is now frozen on the top.  When the grandsons were here at Christmas we had fun playing 'back behind' the pond which is usually under about three or four feet of water.  Now you can see the snow back there.
Thankfully, Steve and I finially got a chance to burn feed sacks and some other paper trash yesterday.  The wind had laid for the first time in days and our burn pile area was covered with snow.  Feeding steers, heifers and cows all winter really makes the feed sacks stack up.  A few of the sacks didn't have an colored ink label so I saved them to use as underlay mulch in the garden. 
The birds have really been hitting the feeders these days.  They are so pretty and I've taken pictures of them and some of our other animals as they survive the weather, but I haven't quite figured out how to get them posted yet.  I'm still learning and hope to get this thing figured out soon.