Snow For December 2010

This orpington would rather scratch up feed than eat the scratch out of the feeder. She would much rather be scratching around out of the pen, but it is still too cold and wet to leave Morgan out all day watching the chickens.


Behind the feeder on the left there is an australorp going in the coop through the opening I left open under one of the windows.

Most of the snow has melted where it is in the sun all day, but there is still frozen snow in shady places... like the porch.

Kristine just came in and asked me if I heard the thud. Thud? No. Turns out that she let Morgan out, turned around to shut the door and thud!

Morgan was laying on her side on the Sierra Cement trying to get up. And she has claws! Poor baby. She is ok. I hate trying to walk on that frozen snow.

When Kristine asked if I heard a thud I thought she meant that another tree fell over. Not unusual for trees to fall.

On my one trip outside today I came upon this tree limb that fell during this snow. I put my walking stick on it for size comparison. The stick is near five feet, so the limb is around fifteen feet.

I don't plan to be spending time outside until we have a good wind storm that will knock the rest of the dead branches down. It's a bit creepy walking around under the tall trees knowing there are dead limbs just waiting to fall.

I was up all night again keeping the wood stove filled and watching films on YouTube. I also made a list of over twenty five Christmas movies. I'm looking forward to watching some old favorites and finding some new ones.

And I need to remember to keep my mouth shut when I go out. Or remember to put a muffler around my neck and mouth. My teeth ached for half the day from breathing with my mouth open when I was outside. It didn't feel that cold, but ouch!

Christmas Movie

December 1st

For each day of December this year I'm going to watch

a Christmas film of some sort.

Some old favorites - some new.

A Child's Christmas In Wales

click to watch on YouTube

A new film for me to start off the month.

I liked the film, but couldn't understand all the words.

Don't know what people in Wales would think of it.

Peek at the Past

(December 1, 2009)

Last year I tried leaving up the Christmas decorations

for a few months,

but ended up taking them down.

This year we will leave them up until the grand children and family

come for a second Christmas.

[0 eggs today]

The tarp I put over the chicken pen

has cut out a lot of the sun light into the coop.

I think the loss of light has contributed to 0 eggs.

~:>

Smiles