Friday Feature - And Yet More Snow

If you look closely at the start of this video clip, you'll see little Sunshine peeking through the ice fence. I started filming this morning hoping she'd do her "I need a cookie. Hey! I need a cookie! Wah - really want a COOOOOKIE!", but ended up catching Comby walking around Aria's feet. I love to watch animals interact. Look how careful she is, not stepping on him.




We are on again/off again with our power, but we're staying warm, the animals are well fed and I've really enjoyed watching the beautiful snow pile up. Now if we could just get everyone's power back on.

Stay warm and keep your chin up!

Partridges In A Pear Tree

Or more like feeder pillaging grackles in an apple tree.



And after a very. traumatic. spell. of. no. power and hence no heated beds, the cats are finally much happier.



Claire Bear and Brushy



Eli



Comby



Wiwi, in front of the fire all day, never even knew the power was out.

And that's all that really matters, right?

Yeesh ;-)

Making Lemonade

We have been popped by a bad winter storm. Six or so inches of snow yesterday morning and then I don't know how many inches of rain. Everything is flooded and about an inch of it froze on the trees, power lines...



We have two very old friends (white pines) that have once again taken a big hit. I don't know how much more they can withstand and I can't imagine hanging my hammock anywhere else. Now at least the rain has stopped, but it's snowing again.

They are predicting four inches more and we've gotten almost three now, so it looks like they are correct. Sigh. If it weren't for the flooding, lack of power (thankfully we have a generator!), tree damage and animal stress, I'd really be enjoying myself - I LOVE winter most of the time.

We've done what we can to keep everyone comfortable, except the cats, who are wearing Saint Tim down and will probably have their heated beds plugged into the generator by nightfall. It is dropping down into the teens by late evening. The birds are stocking up and look who I caught at the feeder!

(I apologize for the video quality - using the little camera and shooting through a window - so basically the bigger of the bird blobs)



I can't prove it, but who else could it be?

Rebecca Boone

It's all there!



And here she is. She came already named Rebecca Boone, in honor of Daniel Boone's wife and her frontier trip to Kentucky.



"They told me it was going to be warm here!"



Rebecca Boone, Ewen McTeagle and Buddy

If she looks a bit familiar, it might be because you've already seen her fleece.

Great Wheel

I love the new wheel. It's commonly called a Great or Walking wheel, but is also known as a Wool or High wheel. This particular wheel is not only beautiful, but is completely functional and I'm really looking forward to learning how to use it - it requires a slightly different spinning technique.







Can you believe we got this five foot tall wheel AND a sheep in the car (Honda CR-V)?

How Saint Tim Spent His Winter Vacation

We went to New York, east of Rochester and about one mile from Lake Ontario, over the weekend to pick up an antique spinning wheel. Single digit temps with blowing lake effect snow. I tried to take some video, but my hands were so cold that I couldn't make it more than 20 seconds without them hurting so bad that I had to quit. What did Saint Tim do?



Okay... looks fun...but nothing to really write home (or the blog) about.

Let's get a better view.



And y'all thought I was crazy!

So Proud