Firstly – a little late but Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
Things have been so busy around here these past few weeks and there are reason.
HELL HAS FROZEN OVER!!!
I love winter – I love the no bugs – I love the freshness in the air – I love the stillness at night when you can hear every little noise.
I love to sit in my barn and listen to the comforting munching from the herd and to go and hug all the chickens and tuck them into bed.
These last two weeks – not so much.
Polar vortex – Bomb Cyclone – Cold than a Witch’s Undercarriage- Bombcoldapolis – no matter what you call it – IT IS COLD!!!
Face freezing – toesicle – frosty hair – eyelash freezing cold.
Cold enough to tap every power source in our house to heat the chickens!!! Cold enough that for the first time in almost 4 years I actually stalled the ponies over night to get out of that wind.
We rented a heater – a heavy duty construction heater to keep those little free loading slackers from dying cold!!! Too the #($(@#&*$(#*@ thing won’t start in this damn cold.
Life sucking COLD!!!
I’m convinced that Mother Nature has forsaken us and has decided that we have to pay the price for our arrogance of messing up her planet.
OR – that it’s a government conspiracy to spend more on heating fuel to make up for the “break” that we have gotten on electricity HAHAHAHA.
OR – maybe – just maybe it’s winter?? Like winter of the old days when we were kids and it would be howling yet we would still go out and freeze our asses off and play in it.
Who knows – all I know is that I still do love winter- not so much these past few weeks or tonight.
Keep the faith friends – it can’t last forever.
Stay warm friends!!!
Orange Acres 