Well, you can’t, because the glass is covered in ice. This is what I see when I look back out at you. Best you use the door. But be prepared to give it a good shove as some of the doors were frozen shut yesterday morning. 
Who needs curtains! 
This is a curly barked maple. I love this little tree. Thankfully the ice was not too thick on the branches, I have seen freezing rain bring down huge limbs of trees through sheer weight. In fact this is why the tree house tree is such an odd shape. 
All the stock was inside overnight due to the icy rain, so feeding out was easy, but to get to the chook house I had to get through this gate. Frozen shut. So off I went to find my hammer. Just as well I did as I had to use the hammer to break into the chicken coop as well once I got out there, the door was frozen shut.
Daisy was not impressed with my meanderings as her water had a sheet of ice on it too and that trough is heated. but someone forgot to plug it in after its warm weather hiatus. Ah, well that would be me. 
No need to crowd the refrigerator with the left overs of last nights chili. Just pop it outside.
The Daily View looks so benign but that grass is frozen stiff and crunchy.
Good morning. The competition is hotting up over at Spirit Lights The Way and just to be sure that I have covered all the provisions of the competition here is an old pic of my writing desk, not that I am competitive at all Roger. !!
My work space The Loft Studio. I already turned in my little essay. Now, you can join in too. Write a tiny bit about your process and send in a pic of your writing space. Pop over to read all about it here. But have it all in by Robbie Burns birthday. There will be voting for the bestests on Groundhog Day, I think. And there will be prizes. I am not very good with rules. But I love to vote so join in if you feel the urge. just a little excitement for a grey winter.
Now you all have a lovely day. It is 14F (-10) outside. Soon I shall feed out. Daisy is still doing well with her Once A Aay milking. We are all so much more relaxed and the milking is at a civilised hour after everyone’s breakfast when it is warmer and the barn animals and the people are not frozen and pressured – which suits Daisy. Yesterday she never even lifted her foot. She stood beautifully still for the whole milking. Good girl.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
57 responses to “Do you want to peek in through my windows?”
That’s serious chilling. In college we put up quilted panels over the windows (over the thin drapes) in a very old “vintage” non insulated wooden frame house. Self preservation without central heat.
Hope you’ve got some good gloves – metal and ice in this kind of cold is very hard on hands. How nice the water trough can be heated instead of being beaten with a hammer each morning – now that’s real progress! (Ice boxes at one time were on the back porch…real ice boxes – saves money in winter, but going to get stuff out of it!)
Stay warm and enjoy that perfect writing spot!
yes an ice box would be just dandy. The windows are double glazed so it is only the outside layer that is frozen but I have the inside handle to the basement is always coated in ice, never touch that one with wet hands!! c
How lovely is the contrast of all the bright colors of the gate, your red pot, etc. against the ice and gloom…so reassuring. That’s a lot of ice! Your workspace looks like it has as many projects going as mine…only yours is much more organized. Love your desk!
I do like to have a tidy desk, today the only things on my desk is paper and a pen, the computer and a dictionary, I have another desk that sits at a right angle to this one that is covered in the general detritus of research.. Sometimes I worry that i spend too much time organising and not enough time doing! c
Oh goodness, if you of all people don’t spend enough time “doing” then there’s no hope for the rest of us, LOL! I wish I was as organized as you. 🙂
Beautiful warm tones in your study. Good morning, c, and keep warm with your new silkies. 🙂
Your writing space looks like a cosy respite from the cold. I can’t imagine how cold it must feel when the ice covers the windows! Even the idea of keeping the leftovers outside is so novel in my experience. But there is a definite beauty in the frozen landscape…as long as the drinking water doesn’t freeze! 🙂
I have to keep topping up the animals waters with buckets of hot water, well those ones that are not heated and I had better get up off my desk chair and do that actually, it might have warmed up a little by now! c
I love your little writing desk. So much atmosphere there. Good morning and stay warm!
Happy Monday on the Farmy – Stay Warm:)
will do!! c
I like that rotary dial phone on the desk. I found one in the trash when I was in middle school (or what we used to call “junior high”). I brought it home and took it apart. There was one more screw in it going into a solid piece of metal. I couldn’t figure out why it was there, so I removed it. That’s when I learned the “solid piece of metal” was a sandwich of ten thin pieces of metal with nine slices of plastic in between. I never got it back together. Years later I understood that it was the dialing mechanism.
It´s cold here too with an icing sugar dusting of snow this morning, No ice like yours though 🙂
When I was young, I remember “Jack Frost” painting the inside of our windows with such lovely patterns of ice. I see TonTon has his stick in the Daily Photo. He always makes me smile. The skylights are nice for your writing space in the loft. I’m glad Daisy is doing better.
The skylights are magic.. especially in the winter when the light is so LOVED! c
Now when I think about you Celi and your writing I will see you at the wonderful old table – surrounded by things that are important to you. Virginia Woolf would have appreciated your lovely Loft study. V.
One of those spray cans of de-icer for windshields might be handy~
Oooh so cold! I’ve had to pull on socks just to read your post! 🙂 Stay warm, Celi! x
Grab and extra sweater and keep those critters warm!
Your writing room seems to be glowing after those other icy shots. Thanks for the temperature translation. Now I can really go “Oooh and ouch’ when I take in those degrees of chill. It’s so good to hear of Daisy’s new routine, so kind to all.
Cozy office – with hand weights too. Must keep strong 🙂