March 15, 2011

It is one of those very rare days when the snow is so dense from rising temperatures that I can walk on it without sinking.   I can even climb drifts!  The coming world of spring has been my basement for the last couple of weeks, but now the world has opened up and I can go anywhere for a brief period until the snow softens, and makes me sink again.

Copra onions (Fedco seed) growing in the basement under lights.

Some wild seed on the snow, out beyond the pasture.

We can't mend fencing like this until the snow melts some more, and the fence can be pulled up.  Right now, it is frozen down.   Luckily, the sheep don't want to come out this far through the snow.

Winter rye that was planted last summer is starting to appear in a couple of corners of the vegetable beds.

Tracks crossing a fence that needs mending.  Cat?  Coyote?  Coyote tracking a cat?

Pump, Percy and Onions

The temperature got into the upper 40s today, and everything is melting.  We used a new red pump to lift the hay baler and remove a tire for repair.   The first seedlings (onions) appeared under lights in the basement.

We don't normally allow cats on the kitchen table, but Percy is an exception.  He has poor kidneys, and needs an injection of fluids once a day.  He doesn't like this any more than anyone would, so the deal we worked out with him is that he gets to sit on the corner of the kitchen table (attractive spot since previously forbidden), and he gets fed while being "watered".  Percy has been wonderfully good about this, and even comes and gets us if we are late.