Lovely. And the day just kept getting colder.
This was our first nasty winter day of the season and the weather gods held nothing back. 
Yesterday we were wondering how the ducks would fare in below freezing temperatures. Well we were below freezing all day and they spent the whole day paddling in icy puddles until they melted them then they played in the icy water until their feathers froze into icy muddy messes.
They certainly did not hide inside all day like the chickens.
I had to break into the chook house as the door was frozen solid. I never was able to get in the barn door to Molly. Instead I climbed the gate. Climbing anything was a bit dangerous yesterday with ice covering everything and getting thicker over the course of the day. 
At least the excoriating wind died down by late afternoon. 
This is Boo doing his bucket guarding. He does not like the chickens to eat the food that does not belong to them. So, without being asked he sits on guard beside any unattended bucket full of feed as I go about my chores.
He takes this self appointed chore very seriously. Sometimes he will even guard Wai’s food as he is eating it. Glaring at any chicken who tries to steal any.
We still have a little snow falling. But the storm is over. I think we only got the edges of it. I was glad I was not traveling. 
It is still very cold. But as we all know it will get colder over the course of the winter so I am not complaining – I just wear layers of clothing.
I believe we have already reached our high for the day! And the sun has not even risen. Down we will go.
I hope you have a good day.
Celi
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The Kitchen's Garden 
30 responses to “SNOW ON ICE ON MUD”
Aw, Ceci! Loved the title of this blog – makes it sound like a fancy frozen parfait! Laughing at the ducks… aren’t they truly our friends in ‘fowl’ weather?! Loved your photos, Trooper C! Be careful!
I guess that’s why the saying ‘lovely weather for ducks’. And my Mirrhi does the blue heeler thing too…….one of my cats gulps her food down and then goes to steal someone else’s, but Mirrhi knows and won’t let her do it…a gentle nose boof and that cat is stopped in her tracks.
Greetings from stormy Sydney Basin which received more than a month’s rain in 1 1/2 hours this morning in huge thunderstorms . . . worse to come . . . at least I still have my electricity here! Methinks the Weather Gods are trying to tell us something . . . wonder whether ducks can get colds 🙂 ?
OMG! I thought it was chilly here, but the sun shone all day and got to about 18 or 19ºC. I wished I was outdoors instead of being inside a cave most of the time, painting a wall sky blue.
Ducks are quite hardy, which is why their feathers are popular for duvets and pillows.
Those ducks! On their bare legs and feet, just wading about in the icy puddles. I guess there is a reason duck meat is fatty. Because ducks must carry quite a bit of insulation. Still, if they were having fun I guess I shouldn’t feel sorry for them.
Such weather is so fascinating. Well, it is to me. We get no such weather here.
While changing a tire where we stayed in Oklahoma, the tire got away from me an rolled away, which would have been no problem, except that it rolled out onto a small frozen pond, where it fell over and stopped! I had to walk around the pond with a hose to wrap around the tire so that I could drag it in.
That is a funny story. What a conundrum! The hose was a good idea.
Lovely images Celi … what a wonderful eye you have! Stay warm …