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Jan 12 2015
Jan 12 2015
Jan 12 2015Sure ain't the amount we had a year ago...still an amount of snow (got snow-love it!), but not a deluge!
One of my many trusty snow shovels awaiting its next use. Use it to tidy up the tight spots where the tractor afeared to go!
Jan 12 2015
My walk out to the bus in the morning is like a saunter down a city sidewalk in July! LOL
Jan 12 2015
So this is the goose area...the accumulation of snow is nowhere what it was a year ago.
Jan 12 2015
You can see the 16' combo panels all layered together outta the way and the three rails on the top of the fence on the right there.
I learned a great lesson last year in not leaving the fence up to get buried in the snows. Ya ain't gotta click let alone a clue until you're up to your armpits in snow, eh? I might be stubborn but I don't like staying stupid!
2014
I still remember the wrestling with the fence components and how bitterly cold it was! How pooped out I was after the fact...yes, easy breezy in the Fall time...get her done eh! Man, I shoulda had THREE slices of pie that day.
This is the goose area as of today.
Jan 12 2015
Who knew we would get so much moisture in the 2013/2014 winter...but then again, it was a WET year!
Ol' fart in the neighbourhood said it was the most snow he had ever experienced here. I mean he remembers when the trip from the nearest village (ten minute drive) sometimes took you two days to traverse (over a major river too) in a buckboard. The very first trucks brought here were pretty useless in the ruts and mud...gettin' passed by a horse, eh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travois:
We played alotta gigs (some of the BEST!) in canned music, Rick and I...and the Newfie gigs were some of the most FUN that there be! Feet stompin', hands clapping, by Gee I mightin' even bring out me spoons and keep time...eh...
Another of my fav Newfie songs here below and ever so Eastern Canuckville, eh???
Aunt Martha's Sheep by Ellis Coles:My place had sheep on it...long long long time ago. Often people made fun of shepherds...but usually the people (mostly women) that kept a flock, would make more money on the sheep than the cattle ever did. You can certainly keep more head per acre than cows and with an ewe, tis easy that she produces both twins and triplets...so nah nah...
Wool, meat, milk (more people drink goat's milk in the world than cow's--but sheep's milk has more vitamins and minerals than either, sells for five times more than cows and is more nutritious too...go figure that eh!) and my Jacobs will also provide horns for making buttons outta.
Jan 12 2015 - Two birds in the Bush.
Explained as "When the fishermen return, the dogs are ousted from the houses."
Here is a fun one...scroll down to have the whole happy face in view...then lookit it!
I saw: sweet, loyal, peaceful, & eloquent. Whoa...feeling rather good today, eh??
So off I go...foolish as a bag of mixed nails.
Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
