Yuk, everything is frozen this morning, had to spend an extra while chopping open the pond for the sheep, and then the hand pump in the big barn is frozen.. sigh… time to start hauling warm water for the other barn guys, and Girl has decided that water is good, which is great, as she sure took her sweet time on that, but that now add’s two more 5 gallon buckets of water to the load.. The rabbits water’s are freezing so had switched out to their heavy winter crocks, and even they were frozen solid this morning.. back to BANG, BANG to clear the ice out.. same with the duck water, frozen solid this morning.. ah..

At least the ground is solid underfoot and there is no more mud.. but winter is just starting and we have a couple months of hauling ahead of us.. They say that today, we are going to have snow coming.. so after I warm up a little, I will head back out, I want to run the hounds before the snow comes, and I need at least another hour or two for outside chores before that snow blows, I need to add more bedding to a couple different pens..

So I was out working and stepped on what I thought was good solid ice, and it cracked under me and in I went, it was not that deep really, just up to my calfs but wow, is that cold.. had to come in and get new pants/socks and boots..