Our Cadet came yesterday, everyone remembered her and she worked like a wee trooper. This girl loves to say, Yes!
She collected all the frozen old eggs up in the loft of the barn. (From now on she will keep that clean of eggs so we know what is fresh and what is not.) She spread a bale of straw for the chook house chickens. Then helped me with feeding out.
Being able to just hang out with the animals is important too, at least in the Farmy Book it is. Playing with the animals is good for everyone. Animals and all.
The sun shone.
The snow shone.
Everything shone.
As we walked back from clearing the air vents at the bee hives (I scooped out a small number of headless bees which is a worry – I need to ask my bee people about that) – we spent some time in the pristine snow down the back looking at animal tracks. We saw some tracks from an animal with tiny feet and a hairless tail. We memorised the tracks (they looked like a broken zipper) and she is going to ask Mr Google about them, there were at least three different kinds of animal tracks that we did not recognise. The deer and rabbits are easy, and we recognised a coyote heavy on its feet, walking slowly. We forgot the cold for a while trying to work it all out and recreate the sequence of events.
The snow was pure white and unsullied but for these tracks. We had to work fast though as we were being followed by two of our own dogs making a big mess!
Good morning. I enjoyed our nature walk in the frigid cold. Yesterday we woke up to minus 12F (-24C) but it did warm up a bit. Today it is meant to get all the way up to 32. Freezing point. That will be nice.
This guy came by today! Thanks Gods …
I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farm,
celi
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54 responses to “The Cadet”
Happy for you for having the opportunity to teach again and have a tad extra help to boot . . . happier for the Cadet who looks she is already part of the Farmy community . . . . animals know: your animals all have accepted her already. Heartwarming post.
I wouldn’t worry about the headless bees, I’ve found them under my hive too. My theory is either that insects eat the heads because they’re high in protein/fat (all those glands in the head) or that the heads break off naturally.
thank you emily, I was rather hoping that would be the case..
How nice to have a ‘yes’ pair of hands. Headless bees ? Gosh .. I hope you find out Celi
That view of the snow-covered farmy is pretty. Yay for the helpful, loving cadet!