Looks like an average winter in this area. Snowfall here and there, cold and then warm ups. The cows are doing fine, something I didn't expect last summer in the drought. There's a lot to do to keep a fella busy during deep winter. And nothing is nicer than the woodstove in the shop. No matter how cold it is outside the shop's warmth is always welcome as a fella is freezing down. And besides a place to warm up it's a place to do projects. I even haul firewood in there and split it in a warm building then haul it back out when done and stack it in the big chicken coop. There are chickens in there but they like the rows of stacked, split firewood.
There are a few projects in the planning. Build some feed troughs, some hay feeders, maybe even some calf hutches. Nice working in a warm building.
The firewood comes from dead fall trees and storm blown trees. This past summer we had more than a hundred trees blown down here and there on the farm. Wicked storm that was. Plenty of firewood if I can get out and make some. The snow is getting deeper and deeper.
So deep winter moves on. Not boring. Always something to do.
