The weather has decided to turn nice. The Chinook winds blew in yesterday morning in a matter of twenty minutes it changed from -23 to 0 degrees. The wind was blowing the snow off the roof of our house with the wind chimes on "My Deck" twinkling away. All the animals are happy to have the reprieve from the cold temperatures. Dreamer, the horse has been galloping happily around her paddock with tail held high.... and nose to the wind. The sheep are moving around more freely Honeydew and Mishka (llama and pregnant alpaca) are staying close to the feeding trough. Meanwhile the male alpacas have gotten dreadfully lazy. They only move two feet from their feeding trough.... and they have begun to poop where they eat.... right into the trough.. teapot went out the other day and because he was fed up with the dirty bu--ers he spent a good ten minutes chasing them around so that they would have some trails in the snow where they would be able to move freely and poop away from their feed. So much of their feed is wasted when they poop and pee on it.... quite disgusting actually..... We are going to have to get serious and start looking for hay again. I dear say it will be harder to find some at this time of the year but we are down to our last two bales and we will have to find some fairly quickly. At the least by the end of the month. This business of hay shortages is enough to make you want to get out of having animals at all! It will be a hard spring for sure and I'll be glad when the grass starts growing again and we can get these animals out on the grass.
But today the sun is shining and though the sun is low in the sky there is not a cloud to be seen anywhere.
I have been working on a 100 piece puzzle throughout the last week which my sister gave our family for Christmas. It is quite a lovely scene of a log house by the edge of a lake with loons floating along in the water. The Daughters have been helping with it. Teapot hates puzzles and so he ignores it totally. But the girls and I have been having a relaxing time working on our challenge. We are almost finished. There's something nice about working on it since we can only work on it during daylight hours. We sit here in the newly paneled sun room and the sun is shining brightly... it is a lovely room. I'm happy in it. Sun streams through the window calling to me...
Today is a great day... a day for doing things outside... and that is where I'm headed... outdoor for a breath of fresh air.
I hope the sun is shining on you too....
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