Snow

Christmas Day, 2009

December 24, 2011

For the past two years, I look forward to Christmas just so I can go back and re-read this post and laugh.  This may be one of the funniest posts I’ve ever written . . or maybe you had to be there.  It was so funny.  For two years now, we’ve laughed about this day.  [...]

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Chicken Freedom

February 12, 2011

The poor, deprived chickens have been cooped up literally for two weeks.  We couldn’t let them outside because the snow was too deep.  Besides, the coop is heated and we had days and days that the temps barely got into double digits and too many nights with near zero temps.  They were safer, though not [...]

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Snow Results in Roof Collapse

February 2, 2011

Any time this much snow falls, there’s the danger of roof collapses.  Yes, we suffered a roof collapse. The chicken run didn’t hold up so well under the weight of the snow.  It’s ok . . it’s just PVC pipe and once the snow is brushed off and the pipes repositioned, they’ll never know their [...]

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Full Day of Snow

February 1, 2011

I’m not complaining about the snow because we missed the ice.  We can deal with snow.  We can deal with tons of snow!  The National Guard has been activated and the local car dealership loaned the police a couple of four wheel drive vehicle, so things are moving right along. We had near white out [...]

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Footprints Tell the Whole Story

January 20, 2011

Lots of fresh snow! It’s so pretty and so white and so clean!  But, dang it – it’s cold out there! I wish the snow could stay perfect and white.  It cannot stay perfect -  we must go out and tend to the chickens and leave big, ugly bootprints in the snow.  First, I go [...]

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Winter Can End Now

January 13, 2011

We’ve had our first snow.  We’ve had a bit of ice.  I’m ready for spring.  The snow is so pretty when it first falls and everything is white and clean and crisp but almost immediately, our vehicles go from looking like this: to looking like this: The garage becomes full of paraphernalia for tending chickens [...]

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