Animals
- Grammie And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
I have been accused of exuding a little too much positivity from time to time.Today I will completely undo that.You see, every once in a while a day comes along that tries my soul.Not just a little...like when the dogs get sprayed by a skunk...but a little...
- A Wind Chill Of 25 Below!
"UNCLE!"Isn't that what we used to say when we had had enough? That Arctic vortex has seemingly settled itself right over the farm,and it is cold beyond cold here!Everyone is staying indoors today....with lots and lots of hay... or heat lamps! Every...
- Wintry Weekend
After waiting for what has seemed like an eternity,the first snow of Winter arrived this weekend. Now, you may remember that we had a 6 inch snowfallon the weekend after Halloween.(Yes, that was the weekend we drove to W.V. to pick up our piglets,and...
- And More Snow.....
Here are a few more pictures of our weekend snowfall. We were lucky enough to have Amanda and Tim snowed in with us. We spent Saturday making lasagne, baking, watching "White Christmas" and working on a puzzle. Sunday we all took the girls for a walk...
- Wild, Wild Horses........
......we'll ride them some day.....(but not today) Well, that is how the song goes. Today all four of our boys decided to go on a little escapade. You know, the grass is always greener....or so they think. Well to make a very long story short, Brigadoon,...
Animals
The Calm Before The Storm
The Calm....
I was originally going to call this post
"Making Snow Angels".
Yesterday morning, while I was cleaning the dry lot,
the Bigs took turns rolling in the snow.
First Donnie,
then Scarlet,
and lastly, Moonbeam.
Back and forth they rolled, with obvious enjoyment.
"Are they making snow angels?" I wondered....
How strange that they all did this at the same time.
Snow angels????
I think not.
That carries with it a connotation that the horses might also be angelic.
Ahhh, but this is far from the truth.
At this point I changed the name of this post to
"The Calm Before the Storm".
The Storm....
Because, as soon as I finished my chores and headed back to the house,
these three angelic equines found the only stall door that I had inadvertently
left unlatched....not open, mind you, just not latched.
They used their dexterous lips to open the stall doors the whole way...
their gateway to freedom.
And off they ran.....
and ran....
and ran.....
(All of this unbeknownst to me.)
That is, until Becky yelled in my back door...
"Hey, the Bigs are loose!!"
Quick! on with the jacket, snowpants, boots, gloves...
hop into the gator,
stop at the barn, pick up the halters and lead ropes
and a little tasty feed as a lure.
Drive down the lane, down the road, around the corner,
up towards Becky's barn (they always go there...to visit her horses.)
Low and behold there they were, carefully closed in her pasture
(Thank you Kathy...
our neighbor who spotted them running and headed out after them)
Halters on.....trudging back to our barn....carefully, through ice and snow...
back into the dry lot....
adventure over.
(Thanks for the help, Kathy and Beck...it takes a village!)
Snow angels???
I think not.
Unfortunately, in the haste to get out to corral these naughty kids,
I forgot my camera.
So no pictures as proof.
You'll have to take me at my word, as I huff and puff from chasing them...
It happened.
I swear.
- Grammie And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
I have been accused of exuding a little too much positivity from time to time.Today I will completely undo that.You see, every once in a while a day comes along that tries my soul.Not just a little...like when the dogs get sprayed by a skunk...but a little...
- A Wind Chill Of 25 Below!
"UNCLE!"Isn't that what we used to say when we had had enough? That Arctic vortex has seemingly settled itself right over the farm,and it is cold beyond cold here!Everyone is staying indoors today....with lots and lots of hay... or heat lamps! Every...
- Wintry Weekend
After waiting for what has seemed like an eternity,the first snow of Winter arrived this weekend. Now, you may remember that we had a 6 inch snowfallon the weekend after Halloween.(Yes, that was the weekend we drove to W.V. to pick up our piglets,and...
- And More Snow.....
Here are a few more pictures of our weekend snowfall. We were lucky enough to have Amanda and Tim snowed in with us. We spent Saturday making lasagne, baking, watching "White Christmas" and working on a puzzle. Sunday we all took the girls for a walk...
- Wild, Wild Horses........
......we'll ride them some day.....(but not today) Well, that is how the song goes. Today all four of our boys decided to go on a little escapade. You know, the grass is always greener....or so they think. Well to make a very long story short, Brigadoon,...