This picture of the icicle was taken at 10:30 Wednesday morning. Our faucet drips ever so slightly so I've put a bucket under the faucet and the cats drink from it.
It has been so cold and so dry this year. I read in the paper that it is the driest Decemeber and January is history. Although we have a freeze advisory tonight and tomorrow night, the forecast is calling for rain next weekend and the following Tuesday. Hopefully this is the beginning of our actual rainy season.
We have been pulling rocks from the fields and using them to make this rock bed for the runoff from the berry patch in anticipation.
We have been working on our 2012 budget. Ugh! That's the downside of this lovely lifestyle - it is still a business and must be run as such.
Ben is still applying his nightly "cologne" (really is skunk spray). He really has a thing about these varmints.
Ben and Angel were introduced to the chickens as puppies so that they would protect them and not harm them. Because our chickens are free range, we occasionally lose one to an eagle. Angel knows this. Whenever she sees any type of large bird, she goes crazy, running after it and barking. It is the funniest thing to see her racing across the fields, face turned toward the sky and sending it on its way. I guess it's efective.
This little suffolk lamb was born last week. I was wondering if it would retain its black color, so I googled it. I was told that some lambs are born black but will lose the color by adulthood.
"Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them" Anonymous
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