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Couldn’t really think of a good title tonight – my brain is still a little off from this cold I have been battling.

Random musings – more or less.

Winter is upon us – the ground is starting to freeze and good Lord – this time last year I am sure we had snow!! – not yet though but you can almost smell it in the air.

This year will be the first year we have chickens over the winter. They have nice cosy coop but I am so worried that we will inadvertently kill them in our lack of experience. I rely heavily on advice from friends who are vastly more experienced than us – if all else fails – I’ll bring the free loading slackers into the garage! I know I can con hubs into that 😉

As I said above -the ground is freezing which will make for interesting walking in the early mornings post daylight- I fear that an “ankle turn” is in my future – SCORE!!! A day off work.

The herd does not fair so well on the hard ground-we are at the “inbetweeny” stage of mud to frozen – once frozen – Hubs can scrape it to even it out.

I have a love/hate relationship with winter.

I do love the cold crisp nights where it is just me and herd when the moon is bright and traffic is slow – just sitting there listening to them eat and breath – it’s so calming.

On the flip side – I do hate the constant darkness that has seemed to take over every facet during the week. Dark driving to work – dark coming home – now I know why the call it hibernation.

I love love love our new batch of firewood – the house is almost sub-tropic downstairs but just cool enough upstairs to sleep. I do hate the mess it makes when we have to haul it inside.

The holidays are almost upon us – when did that happen? This years pact is simple – a nice meal – a bottle of wine and a trinket or two – that’s it – that’s all -we have all agreed. It’s time to go back to our roots with family and friends and fun and not monetary.

There are a few things missing though.

I do hate that Little Horse is not with us – I miss him so much. I love my herd -I really do but they are not him.

I miss my gal pal and trusty side kick and horse rider extraordinaire – I don’t see her as often as of late – she is so busy in her new job.

I hate being sick.

I think I’ll just go to bed and tomorrow I’ll have a better outlook and not be so maudlin.

ps. Blogger spell check was down so I’ll fix errors next time 🙂