Our mini-van won't be going anywhere anytime soon! Instead I've been learning to drive our 4x4 truck in the snow. My days of parallel parking a tiny sedan in a tiny parking spot while a dozen impatient drivers wait behind me in San Francisco are over!
Littlest Farmgirl getting a lot of laughs watching her brothers throw snow at the door:
Chicken, turkey & guinea trails:
This bunny mama and all her new babies keep perfectly cozy together, even though the temperature is in the teens at night:
I'm always amazed by how animals are designed to exist (& thrive!) in nature no matter the temperature. I've seen our steer and cows lying peacefully in their pasture, happily chewing their cuds with half an inch of snow on their back! It is so unlike we wimpy humans that must have layers of clothing and a heat source just to survive the night.
Look at this bunny mama under all that snow and ice.
She's thriving and peaceful also. And see that plastic bin to her right? Her brand newly born babies are in there, sleeping and wiggling joyfully. And do you know what keeps them alive? It's not the mama because rabbits don't actually sit on or around their bunnies except when they go in to nurse them only once or twice a day- it's the fur she pulls out of her own coat and makes a nest out of that keeps them cozy and unaware of the 15 degree temp. outside! Those babies in the bin have a fur lined nest and about 3 inches of plucked out fur covering them. When I reach in and touch them they are naked, and warm! Rabbit fur is amazing.
Here is the view from where we milk the cow (when we are milking. We are still enjoying our milking break now).
And here is the same view from this past summer.
Have I mentioned lately how much I love snow? :) It is so pretty! I didn't grow up with snow, and we certainly never had snow in the Bay Area. This is the biggest snow of my life so far! I can't get enough of the views. Every single morning as soon as I get my contacts in so I'm not blinder than a bat, I walk through the house just to look out every window. Sometimes, like today, the morning sun is shining brilliantly against the snow and makes it twinkle and glisten like there are millions of little flashing lights out on the hillsides.
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It is very beautiful....thanks for sharing the pictures...we had a bit of snow ourshelves on Christmas day...what a blessing...not one I'll soon forget! blessings
ReplyDeleteThe icy pictures are amazing! So glad to know ya! Visiting from the Farmgirl Bloghop.
ReplyDeleteSimplyShelley, thank you for visiting. I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the blessings of snow as well!
ReplyDeleteDaisy, thank you. I especially love that photo my husband took of the frost on the pig fencing. So neat!
Oh my, that looks too cold for me! I hope you have good heat way out there. I am keeping my wood heater going and am almost out of wood alreay.
ReplyDeleteKris, well as long as it's above 30, it feels rather comfortable to us. Unless there is an icy wind like tonight! Once it dips into the teens though, it does feel pretty darn chilly. Enough to make my face hurt. Mix winds plus 15 degree temp, and I'd rather stay in the house and make my poor farmer husband hot coffee for when he comes in! ;)
ReplyDeleteI also love the pig fence picture.
ReplyDeleteWhen my sister lived in the middle of nowhere, CO they once lost a car in the snow until spring!