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What a fabulous start to winter! Yes, we love the snow…so for us today’s storm was an event! We had about 8″ on the ground and as we awoke our snow stick attached to the flagpole read 11″ and coming down hard by 8AM. Steve and Liza, our farm helpers, are also snow birds so all of us are just happpppy! Jack took a walk with the dogs and captured some of the views this morning (Sidney found a point of interest way down under)…I made batches of Christmas cookies, a turkey stew for dinner and basic Christmas fun things while Jack spent the afternoon doing chores like getting the week’s hay to the sheep barn from the big barn, raking the roof edges and plowing and clearing snow as the temps are supposed to plummet this week. They have been unseasonable low this year for December, the overnights in the single numbers and highs in the 20’s. And to think Winter officially starts this week! We hope this season lasts well into March!
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Sidney kept me company yesterday while I made cranberry strings. He likes raw cranberries! He likes all berries, blueberries the best. I didn’t give him too many but he was most fascinated as the string grew and wiggled around under his nose! Along with our living room tree, I wanted a little tree for the kitchen this year. It’s decorated with animal ornaments and bobbles. It’s a fun addition!
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We have had a number of gray days lately so yesterday Shelley and Sidney took advantage of the warm rays. Sidney loves to lay out in the front yard pondering his universe, moreso with some warm protection underneath. Both these dogs love the snow…Sid gets such a charge out of running the fields with the snow on them and they both snuffle into the grass tufts looking for unsuspecting mice.
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I am diverting from the horrors of yesterday. In a numbness now. I could just stare out the window all day but need to get back to my routine of the farm, work and friendships. Life without Ursus now begins.
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Pets
The unthinkable and unexpected and most painful thing has just occured. I have to write, it won’t help.
Our dear and loyal cat, Ursus, has been killed just moments ago. I can’t breath. He was run over in the night, the dark, this snowy night. He is gone. We are in shock.
I thought we had at least 10 more years. I can’t even explain the intensity of this cat and our relationship with him.
We are a mess. He was a stray cat who came to us, we tamed him and he knew how to survive here, he lived here before we arrived. We have had him 12 years and now on his own land he died, in an untimely and very unkind way.
We are sick, time will heal this but never, ever, will we have another friend such as Ursus. He was one of a kind. God rest your blessed soul, dear Ursus.
