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Between Shovels

Posted by Lacy in Capturing Life in Photos, On the Farm on Monday, February 1, 2010

Oh my, yesterday was a busy (and tiring!) day for us. It's a good thing the snow was light, and not heavy, because of all the shoveling and clearing we had to do! Shoveling out the paths (again), shoveling off the porches and decks, shoveling paths to the vehicles and clearing them off, shoveling a path down the front yard over headed towards Gracie's pen for the water hose, and Levi also pushed snow out of the driveway with the tractor! I'm sure glad we didn't lose our electricity or anything like that!

So, here's some of the promised photos that I took today, between shovels. I had to shovel a while so that I could get my fingers nice and toasty warm (instead of being white, numb, and frozen!) so I could snap some photos, seeing as I have a real hard time doing it with my big, bulky gloves on.

I stayed on the paths most of the time while taking photos, because I didn't want to risk getting snow and ice down my boots! Brrr! And in some of the spots where the snow had blown more than 13 inches, it was well over the top of my boots! The first photo up on the left was taken from my bedroom window yesterday morning. After I saw how the light was "hitting" (can't think of a better expression!) the trees, I just couldn't resist snapping a shot of it!

Then a picture of snow on the tree limbs…icicles hanging off the barn roof, a closer shot of them, and Hannah with the guineas!

There's Hannah and Shadow on the path to the turkey building. They're usually behind me, instead of in front of me (especially if I have the scratch bucket!), but this time they decided to take the lead. I love this next picture of Shadow… his tongue is out! haha!

The last photo is my favorite, I think. With the snow, icicles hanging on the barn, and the wood smoke coming out the chiminy, just gives it that nice "look", if you know what I mean!

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Now wash me and I shall be

Posted by Lacy in On the Farm on Saturday, January 30, 2010

Yep, sure enough, we got snow again. Dad figures there's about 12-14 inches out there right now. It's pretty much stopped snowing now, but it was really coming down thick earlier!

Most of the day was spent shoveling / sweeping snow paths to the animal pens and barns… then coming out later to find they were completely filled back in with snow (didn't even look like paths had been cleared to the animal pens), so we had to re-shovel them a lot!

All these pictures were taken while it was still snowing (I wrapped my camera up in a handkerchief to get it down to the barn, so it wouldn't get snowed on ), so hopefully tomorrow if it's not snowing I'll be able to get some better ones!

Seeing all of this snow reminds me of Psalm 51:7: "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." and of course that reminds me of the hymn that goes with that verse (Whiter than Snow)……..

Lord Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole; I want Thee forever to live in my soul; Break down every idol, cast out every foe!

Now wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Whiter than snow, yes, whiter than snow; Now wash me and I shall be whiter than snow!

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After supper, we all went outside to check on Gracie and the goats, and the wood-stove in the barn (and for me to collect the eggs, which I had forgotten earlier), I went around to the rooster (guinea) pen to check on the guineas, since it was supposed to be pretty cold tonight.. Well, about 5 of them were in the guinea box (and a few sitting outside of the box), and 6 of them were outside on the roost.

So, the ones that were sitting outside the guinea box, I picked up and moved to the inside, then walked down to get the 6 off the roost and put them in as well. One of the girls, Sydney, wasn't even on the roost. She was sitting on the ground, in the snow, sleeping! Considering that the big light was on, I didn't think I was going to be able to catch them and move them to the guinea box, but my little pearls are generally pretty easy going, the only ones I had to worry about catching were the two older guineas. I managed to catch the pearls, one by one, then moved on to catching the older ones.

Big Guin (the old male guinea) didn't give me any trouble. I slowly walked up and grabbed him real fast, so he wouldn't have a chance to fly. Well, once I did that, Miss Guin (the old female) was on the alert, and she wasn't about to let me catch her easy. Going back for her, when I tried to grab her she flew, so I had to herd her back to the roost and make her fly up again, and actually caught her that time. But when I did, the way she was screaming you'd of thought I was killing her! Even the cow came out of her stall to see what was going on.. LOL!