Thank you for all yesterdays excellent comments re: printing Sheila’s calender. I have some wonderful avenues to explore now, in my search for ways for Sheila to make some pin money to buy extra feed and maybe outfit a new summer area for her in the Rat House. Mama and the girls are living in there now until the grass shows. It is gloriously sunny all morning and very sheltered.
Daisy is due in just over two weeks. And so cold yesterday that her tears were freezing on her cheeks. 
Queenie would like to remind us that she is also due to have her calf at the beginning of April.
Queenie has always been such a round cow that honestly it is hard to tell if she really is pregnant or not. April might be a better month for calving though. 
Marcel was 10 days old yesterday. 
And celebrated by sleeping most of the day with his rather formidable Boo Nanny.
Do you remember that a week or so ago we had a few days above freezing, which melted some of the snow. Then of course it froze again. Now we are surrounded in fields of ice. Hard bitter unrelenting ice. The walks are even more dangerous than ever.
Below is the Creek that is really a Ditch. In fact Our John’s Great-Grandfather dug this ditch to drain the land, it was swampland until then. John has inherited a little of the land across this ditch but we need to find a way across so we can take it out of the rented/ cropping cycle and farm over there. At the moment we have to drive all the way around on the road, then cut across someone else’s bridge and through their yard. Our house is just out of sight; screen left. Anyone got a bridge for sale? A big bridge?
This is where I am going to sow the wild flowers this spring. Along the banks of this Creek that is really a Ditch.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
Your friend on the ever changing farmy,
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
84 responses to “Ice, Ice everywhere and not a block for my drink”
There is something so very beautiful about two animals snuggled up together. Your two are so adorable!
As far as Marcel’s tummy troubles, you probably already use it but I always put Probios in the bottles I give to our bottle babies. I just give them whole milk, no replacer, and the Probios. It firms them right up. It’s not cheap but it’s worth it. It puts all the good little bacteria back in their gut.
By the way, I’d be totally up for a “Shelia – sassiest sow around”, t-shirt.
Morning jennifer, thank you, what a good idea, I should have thought of that before. His tummy troubles are much better but really i should have some Probios on hand anyway. Though by the time it gets delivered out here he will be on solids!! c
That Marcel is some kind of smiling darling. He’s going to be gracing my screen shortly. Thank you:)