Wow! God gave us a BEAUTIFUL, sunny, melt the snow day! It even felt, well, not freezing! It's predicted to be even warmer tomorrow, maybe 50 degrees. Yea!
Had a wonderful church morning, learning that God put his word in my heart and mind from the moment I came to him. Even the coffee at church was perfect. Yummy gingerbread cookie. We went to our friends, the Brennan's to pick up some square hay bales for the steers. They weren't home yet, but Dan tossed down the bales to the truck from the hayloft and Abigail stacked them. 33 bales. I got to see and touch Maybelle, their daughter's pony, just plain - smell horse. Wonderful.
Came home and had lunch. My lunch basically consisted of the last hunk of Speedy Mustard Rye Bread that I made a few days ago...heated up and slathered with butter.
We went out to fill up the round bale feeders with hay bales and then stacked the last 10 bales in the barn for Seifer, the fair steer. Abigail helped me raise up the nesting boxes by carrying over two cinder blocks to set it on. She's a peach! We watched the chickens awhile. She's named the Cochin Rooster, Higgins. Higgy-Baby, from Magnum P.I. Two of the hens she named Lucy and Ethel. The remaining 4 hens are, as yet, unnamed.
Dan, Abs, and I walked the new property and talked about the buildings and everything that needs done. Abigail headed home after awhile, but Dan and I walked back into the woods and walked the trail. It was great! There is still alot of snow back there, and the sun was beaming through the trees. Dan went off to haul a hose line out to the fair steer, but I walked around the front of the property, deciding where 3 tiny pines need to be transplanted to, and ended up on our wooden bench in the sun overlooking our snow covered garden. Dan joined me for a while and we threw a stick to the dog.
Tacos for dinner (easy for me!) and just hanging out in our cozy house.
