Animals
If you have a little extra time...
please check out this website (written by BHA's very own newlywed, Amanda)...
and see if you recognize anyone in the pictures!
www.eattogetherpa.org
Great website, Amanda!!
- Fur Coat Ettiquette
The questions that you posed a couple weeks ago continue to provide me withsubject matter for this time when not much is happening on the farm. Since it has been so incredibly cold this week,it's a good time to address this next question. Annie V....
- Preparing For A Colder Snap
It was a balmy 33 degrees yesterday morning as I did morning chores.Thirty three seems so warm, that I removed my coat and did chores in myturtleneck and flannel shirt. By afternoon, though, the wind whistled through the trees...sending snow twirling...
- How To Endure The Cold...and Make A Piecrust
Strong gusty winds ushered in a warm front...melting most of the ice, and then evaporating the moisture. The tail end of the winds brought bitter cold once again. Today's forecast is snow. Such is winter in this part of the country... changeable,...
- Equine Ice Capades
This is a familiar afternoon scene on the farm. It might look like three horses walking alone down the road, but buried in that mass of brown fur and hooves is Dr. Becky. Her horses Sid and Duffy, along with Shirley (pony and sister to my Donnie and...
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
This has been the coldest December that I can remember. Our Decembers are usually temperate...and snow for Christmas is often a long shot. However, it looks like the snow on the ground will still be around for the holidays. The snow on the ground makes...
Animals
Cold Enthusiasts
Yesterday's sun rose over frost-covered fields.
The farm had cooled to a brisk 27 degrees over night...
the coldest morning so far this season.
With winter work clothes on, I headed out to do morning chores.
The only part of me that felt alien to the cold were my hands.
It will take some time for them to get used to the cold.
Did you know that your hands will actually grow extra capillaries in response to cold...
this is why they are bothered more by the cold in the beginning of the season than later.
I have learned, though, that the key to warmth in work gloves is to buy them several sizes too large.
The air circulation around your fingers will help to warm them...
which is why mittens are always warmer than gloves.
Unfortunately, working with mittens is like being all thumbs!
While I was emptying icy buckets and scooping freeze-dried poop,
I head thundering hooves from the upper pastures.
I looked up to see Becky's Sid and Shirley running, bucking, leaping and rearing.
It's been my experience that horses love the advent of colder weather...
greeting it with new-found energy and enthusiasm.
I stood and watched the joy for a little while,
and, as luck would have it, with eyes upon them they settled down and started eating.
I had hoped to capture some of their leaping on film,
but they were not in the mood for showing off to an audience.
Ho-hum... no action here!
But still, I am forever in awe of equines...
such majestic creatures whose peaceful demeanor can at any moment explode into
powerful running
and leaping.
And just as suddenly as it begins, it ends and quiet grazing resumes...
on a quiet, frost-filled Autumn morning.
If you have a little extra time...
please check out this website (written by BHA's very own newlywed, Amanda)...
and see if you recognize anyone in the pictures!
www.eattogetherpa.org
Great website, Amanda!!
- Fur Coat Ettiquette
The questions that you posed a couple weeks ago continue to provide me withsubject matter for this time when not much is happening on the farm. Since it has been so incredibly cold this week,it's a good time to address this next question. Annie V....
- Preparing For A Colder Snap
It was a balmy 33 degrees yesterday morning as I did morning chores.Thirty three seems so warm, that I removed my coat and did chores in myturtleneck and flannel shirt. By afternoon, though, the wind whistled through the trees...sending snow twirling...
- How To Endure The Cold...and Make A Piecrust
Strong gusty winds ushered in a warm front...melting most of the ice, and then evaporating the moisture. The tail end of the winds brought bitter cold once again. Today's forecast is snow. Such is winter in this part of the country... changeable,...
- Equine Ice Capades
This is a familiar afternoon scene on the farm. It might look like three horses walking alone down the road, but buried in that mass of brown fur and hooves is Dr. Becky. Her horses Sid and Duffy, along with Shirley (pony and sister to my Donnie and...
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
This has been the coldest December that I can remember. Our Decembers are usually temperate...and snow for Christmas is often a long shot. However, it looks like the snow on the ground will still be around for the holidays. The snow on the ground makes...