Frozen

Rosie and I returned from a trip up north to visit our families, we got back Sunday night and went straight to bed. Granted it was cold when we got home (low 30's) but by the time I woke up to go to work the temp had dropped by a lot. All of our water pipes where frozen, no shower, no coffee, no good. We use a few 5 gallon buckets for watering our animals and on a normal cold morning there is about 1/2 inch of ice that has to be broken so they can drink. This morning the 5 gallon buckets where frozen solid into a 5 gallon ice cube. All the animals seemed to be fine by the early morning light but I think we will need to do a little more planning for the cold winter, more pipe insulation and a good stock of firewood.

When Turkeys ATTACK! Er....Uh.... I mean investigate.

While we we out feeding the animals one evening and I thought I would bring our camera with us and take a few pictures of them and perhaps a little video as well. Here is how it turned out:

Rain and disappointment

So Sam and I went threw a Herculean effort to dig out the stream and the duck pond in anticipation of heavy rain and flooding like we had last year. Now we are in our second "rain storm" of the season and the skies have dropped nearly nothing on us. No rapids in the creek, no flooding chicken coop, no bridge under water, NOTHING! It is like building the Ark and then getting nothing but blue skies and warm weather from there on out. No that I want our farm to flood, but I want to see some running water after all that effort. Oh well.....