Tag Archives: snow
Snowshoeing is for the Birds
We got 28″ of snow yesterday. In the past nine days, we’ve enjoyed 43 hours of NOT having our power out. Of course, it’s snowing again today and Dave is gone for 12 hours and the birds need to be … Continue reading
Farmer Dave and the Deep Freeze
When I came home from work last night, Dave was outside working with the animals. As it turned out, Dave had been outside working with the animals for nearly two hours, and he wasn’t quite done. To be clear, dinnertime … Continue reading
These Goats Are Made for Walking
The goats have a nice enough enclosure with plenty of space, but sometimes they really want to go out for a walk. One of the many funny things about goats is that they will not wander off. They will not … Continue reading
Frozen Chicken
We got about a foot of snow yesterday. It started around 10:00 a.m. and continued well past 10:00 p.m. By any account, that’s a decent amount of snow in a relatively short period of time. The pigs were utterly unfazed, … Continue reading
Removing That Which is Disagreeable
Although it is, by now, abundantly clear that spring will never, ever arrive in the Northeast of these frost-laden United States, we’ve decided to prune the apple tree anyway. When we moved onto the farm, we planted five heirloom varietal … Continue reading
Chickensicles
It snowed about 1,000 feet today and my chickens keep getting stuck in the snow. Despite the snowblown paths and the chicken bathhouse full of not-frozen ground, they continue to be mind-bendingly stupid. They wander off-course and they cannot seem … Continue reading
Planning for Planting
The weather turned briefly warm over the past couple of days. Just as patches of grass emerged through the snow and the frozen patches turned to puddles, our thoughts turned to planting. February seems to do this to us. It’s … Continue reading
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