This is the view out to the East from the tiny house. Our winter sunrise view. However the Kiwi Builder has wrapped it up like fish and chips in the building paper that is emblazoned with the name of a certain big box building store that one buys such things at. 
And it has lost all its charm. Now it is noisy with unwanted text. Plus I refuse to advertise this big cold spider of a consortium that has gobbled up our lovely little hardware stores. So until the wood cladding is on and the words are covered up we will be focussing our blinkered eyes on details. At least this building paper is made in the USA. I know this because every three feet it’s shouts information at me!
You remember yesterday I told you about all the tiny blocks ice falling from the trees and joining the ice on the ground to form a sheet. Well here it is, and it will be here until we get a decent thaw, which should be soon. It is very slippery. And startlingly beautiful at night as I walk to and fro. Ton runs across it carrying his torch and it sparkles with its multi- faceted million reflections. As though a million chandeliers have crashed to the ground without losing a moment of bright light.
The three girls! Mia, Meadow and Minty. They are the epitome of sheep dingbatedness. I let them out into a big field for a run and they pogo sticked all over the field, then could not believe that the gate had been shut on them!
Kupa as Curtain!
This is a technical photo for the sewers in our midst. Here is the template for the lambs coats. Just sew up the shoulders, and pop your lambs head through the resulting hole, then four feet through the others. The perfect end for old sweatshirts that have been lurking close to the rag bag. Washable. Easy to put on and off. And because it hangs over the body, not under it, the coat does not get mistaken for a nappy. I have changed the V shaped neck line to a rounded one and the left over sleeves I cut short and pop over the lambs head like a victorian collar. I hate to have a cold neck, don’t you?
Good morning. This morning is cold – 16F (-8 C) and still and all your wishes for me have been answered as I can just see a sunrise starting. We are going to have clear skies for a while. Wonderful. Thank you! The sun was all I needed. A sunny day on a Sunday.
My most darling travel agent, who is organising my trip up to the mountains in Canada in July for a family wedding (yes, you are coming too) heard that we were short of hay (she is also a member of the Fellowship of the Kitchens Garden Readers ). She called around and found an enormous 1000 pound bale of alfalfa. So we shall collect that on Monday and I can stop fretting about running out. She always finds me the best deals.
I feel cheered already. We are going to have a great day on the tiny farm.
You have a lovely day too.
celi
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Yay for hay! Or alfalfa!!!! 🙂 Happy Sunday to you!
It really is such a relief, everyone had an extra helping this morning as a celebration.. c
Yummmmm!!!! 🙂
Those sheep – they look as though they are some kind of girl band, waiting for their cue to sing their latest hit! Enjoy your sunny Sunday – we have one too!
Christine
Oh so they are! Hilarious! Is Big Dogs picture all finished? Can I have a copy to hang next to Tons? I was thinking I might hang them in the new Coupe corridor! c
We’re also looking at a beautiful, sunny Sunday. I love the pogo sheep. The ice is beautiful but you can keep that! 🙂 I bet Canada in July will be lovely. Have a great day, Celi.
Maybe your girls can start a little cottage industry making lambs coats and they can model them on their own lamb when you get them one! c
Good morning Celi now that’s a much more cheerful blog I know that all blogs can’t be cheerful but yours seems to be one of the better ones your wording is most pleasurable have a blessed day SAINTS
morning honey, i have such a terrible memory i am seldom down for long, i keep forgetting to feel grim!! c
oh yeah how are you going to put that thousand pound bail in your loft?
We slide it off the trailer and then use the tractor to push it in on the ground floor, I think my loft would collapse if we swung it up there, just imagine!! c
Good morning Celi, do be careful on that ice! Life on the farm seems peaceful and yet very busy. I know your work is hard but I think I am a country girl at heart and miss the solitude. Hong Kong is really cramping my style. Are you getting my comments? I am sorry but sometimes they do not go through. Take care, BAM
Oh no! you must have ended up in the spam folder, i shall go and look for you! how awful. I cannot even begin to imagine living in a high rise in a city such as hong kong, it must be so noisy all the time.. c
Wow, you really did have ice falling out of the sky! Love the picture of Mia, Meadow, and Minty. It cracked me up when you said, “they are the epitome of sheep dingbatedness”. Ha!! Have a lovely day and enjoy your sun. 🙂 Winter storm “Q” has arrived here and it is snowing heavily. ~ April
You guys are getting so much precipitation out there, I am envious.. morning april.. c
I love the smell of alfalfa. So fresh and grassy when compared to regular fescue hay.
I call it air freshener for the barn!! c
love the black and white shot through the peacock feathers. Sunshine makes such a difference, doesn’t it? When the skies are grey and the air is frigid, it’s easy to feel rather despondent and grey one’s self. Blessed sunny Sunday to you.
Beautiful feathers and in fact that is a colour shot, gives you an indication of how colourLess the landscape is! c
Gorgeous shots of Kupa and the ice. So…the lamby coats. Are they two layers? Can’t quite work it out 🙂
it is a single layer, I made two coats out of this old sweatshirt, the fabric drapes over the back of the lamb and is held in place with the legs through those holes, very simple really.. I will have better pictures for you tomorrow.. c
Oh good – would love to make a few for you for next year!
what a splendid idea, i am still wearing the pinny you sent me! it even travels!!! c
I bet I can guess which company logo!
Those sheep look so funny 😉
And i am going to be reminded of it every time i look out the window for some time now!! c
But you are doing the right thing in not blogging it 😉
Beautiful day! Love the dingbat sheep and the shot through Kupa’s tail….here we are slow and lazy on a Sunday….
slow and lazy sounds perfect.. c
Good morning, Celi. Cold and clear here. Johnny’s birthday, so I’ll be baking soon. Love the “million tiny chandeliers” that Ton Ton creates.
the ice is shining in the sun now! Happy Birthday Johnny! I love that you two are so happy together.. c
Grass for the farmy… great news.. love the lambs jersey even though I’m a man.. very enterprising…
can’t we just have one peek at the plastic covering? Your lambie coats are similar to the one I made for my small dog except it was the leg of a pair of yoga pants..four holes for legs and hey presto done..she was none too pleased with it as it did not do much for her street cred…..
Well at least they were yoga pants and not your grannies flowery bloomers!!