Wow, we started out yesterday with rain and warm weather...temperatures of 58 degrees with six inches of snow on the ground. Sunday evening at 11:45 it was 51 degrees and the snow melted all night long and through the entire day on Monday. All the snow and ice melted and flooded the area. Now this morning... it is snowing like nobodies business, lying on the ground and starting all over. Jeese um, what a bummer. Look at the pictures of Tuesday morning and then an hour later. It's being brutal here! We do not want new snow...not now....we just got rid of it.
Alas, by the time I snapped the picture of the snow, the squalls were gone and the sun had returned again...brighter than ever with deep, blue skies now dominating the scene, with few clouds about. How quickly the weather can turn. It reminds me of a person with an anger problem...calm; sophisticated and then instantly thrust into a rampage of cussing and idiotic triads of unstable ranting actions, then perfectly calm and serene all over...in an instant, as if nothing had changed.
Looking at the Pupskill Bay Lake Pond......
A view toward the crossroad......
Looking upstream toward the pond...
The fields behind our house....
View back down the road toward our house... where the stream crosses the road....literally...
Again, looking upstream where it crosses the road....
View of the snow squalls this morning....
Back deck in snow flurries...covered again.
Out into the driveway which was bare one minute ago...
The temperature is now at 37° and rising...rising only for today though, as we have been warned that winter still has not loosened its gripe on us and won't for approximately another two months...still to throw more snow upon our doorstep on occasion. We are looking forward to some mild, dry weather so we can get into the barn and work with the Alpacas and Angoras without chipping our teeth from them chattering in the cold. We would like to brush and groom the Angoras on a weekly basis to keep their fiber in top notched shape for harvesting once long enough. Vick wants to blend some Angora with the Alpaca fiber to create a yarn that has less halo than 100% Angora has. That makes it less bothersome when wearing a scarf or hat made of it. Many people complain of the halo fibers getting into the nose and tickling them or causing sneezing because of it, so if it is blended with Alpaca, the halo fibers are far less conspicuous in comparison.
It won't be long before we will clean out the brooding house and make it ready for the first of many hatchlings of chicks and ducks this coming summer. I always enjoy when the hatching begins, because the brooding house is transformed into a building of bustling life, with incessant and constant chirping as they putter about pecking everything and each other all day long. They are great to watch and will surely bring a smile to the sourest of soles. We are also anticipating the hatching and spectacle of at least one mother guinea fowl with chicks ambling around the yard this summer. How cute it is to see a mother bird with a brood of chicks, just meandering about, pecking and learning the ways of adult birds. With the thirty four or so fowl we now have, surely one or two will raise a brood for us to watch. We've seen them in other farm sites, but it will be a first for us and we are extremely anxious for it to occur. I'd love to see one of our female ducks raise a brood of ducklings too. We haven't had anything like this except for the Canadian geese that come every spring and raise their broods here in the Pupskill Bay Lake Pond. They show up and swim around; eating and pecking through the yard, then disappear for awhile. Later they re-appear with a brood of little ducklings in tow and they are here daily until the group is grown and fly away in the fall. We even have to chase them out of the barn in the summer as they grow and mingle with our chickens and ducks.
Oh well, it won't be long now.......summer will be here before you know it. Spring is just around the corner you know?
It won't be long before we will clean out the brooding house and make it ready for the first of many hatchlings of chicks and ducks this coming summer. I always enjoy when the hatching begins, because the brooding house is transformed into a building of bustling life, with incessant and constant chirping as they putter about pecking everything and each other all day long. They are great to watch and will surely bring a smile to the sourest of soles. We are also anticipating the hatching and spectacle of at least one mother guinea fowl with chicks ambling around the yard this summer. How cute it is to see a mother bird with a brood of chicks, just meandering about, pecking and learning the ways of adult birds. With the thirty four or so fowl we now have, surely one or two will raise a brood for us to watch. We've seen them in other farm sites, but it will be a first for us and we are extremely anxious for it to occur. I'd love to see one of our female ducks raise a brood of ducklings too. We haven't had anything like this except for the Canadian geese that come every spring and raise their broods here in the Pupskill Bay Lake Pond. They show up and swim around; eating and pecking through the yard, then disappear for awhile. Later they re-appear with a brood of little ducklings in tow and they are here daily until the group is grown and fly away in the fall. We even have to chase them out of the barn in the summer as they grow and mingle with our chickens and ducks.
Oh well, it won't be long now.......summer will be here before you know it. Spring is just around the corner you know?
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