ABOVE FREEZING! So I shoveled manure for a couple of hours,(still cleaning out the calving pen) then my neighbour and I worked on the goats pen. Goats jump so everything is heightened!
They should be arriving in the next few weeks. Then she helped John and I carry one of the pig huts into the corridor paddock for the kunekune. They were most pleased with their new play house and promptly fell asleep in the sun. I love it when animals lie down and sleep in the sun. I am hoping that we can put Sheila’s hut in place today, if the snow is cleared off her outside area. She needs to get out of the dark barn and into the sun full time too, she spends way too much time inside. Poppy too of course.
Everyone was out in the sun rooting about for something new to eat.
My beautiful big fat pig with her frozen pink feet.
Boo stole Poppy’s stick. 
But Poppy stole it back. Kids!
And the chicks have their new room mate who we picked up from the railway station late last night. We will find out all Gracie’s news today.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farm
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
44 responses to “Above freezing!”
Wishing you warmth!
Such a cute piggy! Can’t quite get over all that snow, though. Making me feel cold!
New roommate! I can hardly wait to see who that might be!
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Oh I love that close up shot of Sheila…that’s a calendar photo if I ever saw one! I love Sheila! Welcome back to the Farmy, Grace! 🙂
Ha! I love that they play together. That just made my day. The beautiful capture of Sheila’s smile is icing on the cake.
Sunshine adds a little skip to all our step and warms our hearts. I to9o love the piggy lippy! Looking forward to hearing all the latest news from Grace.
There looks to be a spring in everyone’s step, so the season can’t be far behind 🙂
true That!
Those huts are so much bigger than I was imagining, you could fit a whole …what? of piggies…..not a herd. I love that Boo has his own piggy playmate, wish I had one for Mirrhi :)…..I can’t, I live on a small block, but also the cranky mayor lives behind me, he’s bad enough with the chickens, so much as a cackle or a whiff and he’s over complaining! I’d love to see his face if he saw a pig!
We should get you some geese, then he’d really have some noise to complain about! See you Monday, my lovely!
No turning up with a gaggle of geese or a drift of piggies in your saddle bags 🙂
Perish the thought! I’m having a hard enough time fitting in what I really need!
PS: it’s a drift or drove of pigs, a farrow or passel of piglets… and a gaggle of geese!
A drift is a lovely description…..although we don’t see much drifting with Miss C’s lot 🙂
Maybe in a while.. c
It conjures up an image of a field full of happy porkers, drifting along and rootling as they go… Miss C’s lot are less a drift than a gallop!
that too! have a great trip.. c
Thank you!
Those happy snaps almost waft warmth over: luvverly and easy to say when you are keyboarding in a room at 25 C or so 🙂 ! But Boo still has his handsome coat on!! Love the look of the new housing – but are those Nissan huts fastened to the ground in some way – am thinking of the bendy weather further ahead in spring . . .
Yes they have pins that you hammer into the ground, not yet though as the ground is still frozen solid.. c
The golden hay and bright light gated by the weathered lumber is such a lovely picture
And how is stinky Boo today? Still whiffy?