More snow

Not an exciting title, but I'm not very excited right now. Just when everything had almost melted, we got a foot of snow. Beautiful light, fluffy, powdery snow. However, Sarah is stuck in Philly, the Atv wouldn't start and the water froze in the barn barrels despite their heaters. I made arrangements for Sarah, charged the battery on the atv, and hauled warm water to the barn in order to melt snow and make more water. So in the scheme of good thing bad thing, the atv got immediately stuck 5 feet out of the barn. So there is now a shoveled walk from the house to the chicken house and then to the barn. Yes I am done with the snow. So I have decided to put up pictures to show those who do enjoy the snow. Well except for the first ones, Maggie does not enjoy the snow, she barely enjoys the outdoors.

Mom makes the trip to the chicken house before I got a chance to shovel a path. She is quite the pioneer.

Contrary to what some people think, Oscar loves the snow, he clearly loves being a snow puppy. He and Max are having a grand time.

Wallace and Marmalade are in agreement with Maggie, the outside is just no fun.

Spot and Slinky disagree, they love the snow.

And the ducks think that if they sit in the snow long enough it will melt and become a pond. "Positive waves Moriarty, positive waves"

So lets all send out positive warm waves, and bring on the spring.

Haircut's all around

It was shearing day today, my woolly beasties shrunk. I am always amazed at how small my goats really are under all the fiber. 3 of the sheep also got sheared today and we discovered that the remaining 2 Ewes are pregnant as well.

Zeus also got his first haircut, he wasn't so happy about it.

In addition to getting a haircut, Pine also made the move into the boy's pen. Up until now he has been in with his sisters. Luckily Castor and Esau were so busy butting heads, they really didn't pay him much attention.

I still have to get in and trim the hair between the horns, but until then most of the angora's are sporting mohawks.

The girls weren't spared either, the shearer also confirmed that Pearl and Pansy are both pregnant. Yeah Esau! We are still a couple months away.

All in all everyone came out just fine.

We did have an amazing wind storm a few days ago, and 2 of our shelters went tumbling. We're not sure if the one can be salvaged, the second one looks fine, just upside down.