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….call a friend and take a wine break!
We got about 17″ of heavy,wet snow yesterday and I spent the greater part of the day shoveling paths, the barn area and raking snow weary rooves. By 2PM my back was breaking. I spoke to Betsy on the phone and being in the same condition we decided to get together for a repast at Burdick’s in Walpole. If you click the link the handsome gentleman in the far right picture was our server and he made it very easy for us to sit back and reeelax as the snow fell outside. We shared some sauteed greens and pommes frites plus some absolutely delicious wine. We left soothed and refreshed and ready to once again lift our shovels!
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Have a bonfire and chew sticks
Contemplate it’s warmth and beauty
chew sticks with friends
and always, always manage the affairs of the barn!
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Sidney and Luna are snow birds. We knew Sidney was but it sure is great that Luna is also.
It’s a must that all animals and people living on Long Ridge Farm love the snow!
We still have a lot of snow on south side of the saddle up here and today it looks like a lovely snow globe outside.
She eats, breathes and sleeps in it whenever she can.
Our lone hen, Bianca, comes in from the cold to visit from time to time. She is very polite (no messing!), she has some water and then rests in and around the kitchen. Then I pick her up and put her out to live the life of a not so spoiled hen. It’s hard to have just one. We will be getting more chicks in May, enough of this!
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Did you know that January 25th is coined the “most depressing day of the year”? We are getting a massive rainstorm coupled with frozen ground so the water has no way to soak into the ground coupled with a snowmelt to beat the band. This is depressing!
Our cozy farmhouse is approaching flood stage!
Because we go through this every time we get a storm under these conditions, we knew this was coming and took precautions by setting up a brand new sump pump along with an older one. The new one is getting packed up in it’s pretty box and shipped back to the store. It is USELESS! Betsy is enroute from her farm in Putney with another pump and we have Lyle on call with a gas-powered pump if this doesn’t solve the problem.
The one thing that’s for sure is we aren’t alone today. This is the same storm that came from CA where it left such a wake of destruction and traveled all the way across the country in similar fashion. I am happy to report that the sheep are high, dry and comfy.
Betsy’s here….time for a glass of wine!
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This looks to be great…a friend sent me the YouTube connection for a new film, still in screenings…Sweetgrass.
The last ride of the American cowboy.
150 mile journey to summer pastures, up, over and through the mountains and back again.
Here is a film trailer for you to watch.
I see my Wetherby’s face amongst the flock, sans the coat!
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I continue to enjoy the Yarn Harolot’s Never Not Knitting calendar with the latest page writing about “Stash Cull”. She writes that stashes are living, growing things (ah, yah, your fiber stash!) and that yarn should be in your stash because it is beautiful, inspirational, or destined for a project. If it doesn’t fit, cull the herd and pass it along.
I fall, as most fiber lovers, into the category of hoarding. Of course it will be a project. What if yarn ceases to be available?! There are a hundred reasons why we hate to destash even when we know it is a good plan on the face of it.
Other than unloading the stash on other friends with more fiber than they need do you know any organizations that would accept the destash to help someone less fortunate? What do you do when you destash? Um, do you destash?
Meanwhile Luna continues to bond with the flock….here looking out over the barn while I do the morning chores. She is all about being in charge!
and she and Bianca are best friends now.
Finally, I know we are all praying for Haiti and her people. If you want to help financially these sites DWB or the Red Cross or the Salvation Army are directly involved in the relief effort. It will be a very long, hard recovery and even the smallest donation will be appreciated.
