Category: 2024

January 15 It is good ol’ January and we’ve had a little cold weather to drive that point home. Long about Monday the eighth it snowed. Not your “Oh isn’t it pretty. Let’s make snow ice cream” kind of snow. More like a short blizzard. It had been cloudy and cool for a couple of days. We even got a little rain a day or two before the mini-blizzard. So what happened was the sky was cloudy, like I said. In the afternoon while loafing around the house I heard rumbles of thunder. The next thing I knew, the wind hit and the snow pellets (not flakes and not sleet) blew horizontally across SA removing any leaves still clinging to limbs on a few trees. Standing at the kitchen window I was admiring the storm and noticed the chickens huddled together outside the chicken yard. I debated whether to try to put them in the chicken house but decided not to because they probably would just run from me and then we would all be miserable. As I said, the blizzard was short lived and at dinner that evening I learned that Rebecca, Abigail and Chris had braved the storm to collect the flock and get it into the chicken coop. I had settled down to read a book and missed the rodeo.