Wishing and Hoping and Thinking and Praying

We really do enjoy the relative quiet of winter. It is a time of rest and renewal after a busy summer. However after a time, we start anticipating the life that begins each spring and the buzz of activity that accompanies it when we get into full swing. In other words, we start getting Cabin Fever...big time!


This weekend we had a "heat wave"!


I don't know if it was the bit of warmth in the air (you know its really been COLD when 20 degrees seems warm!), but Bryan and I sat down yesterday morning and started dreaming about spring projects. Making the list and checking it twice.



Here's the Spring list so far:

1. Clean the upper barn.

2. Clean the run-in shed (where the horses hang out when they're not bellied up to the round bale!).

3. Suzie should have her lamb in March...yeah! Put wood shavings in a stall to get ready.


4. Pound 800 posts for the raspberry trellises into our rocky "Delaware County soil"....we now know why there are so many stone walls around here!



5. Paint the porch.

6. Add compost to the raised vegetable gardens.


7. Plant the vegetable gardens ,using "low tunnels"
over our raised beds.

8. Fix the barn doors, which are now stuck in a permanently open position, due to a buildup of
snow and ice.

9. Paint the fences.


10. Fix the electric fence in the upper pasture


11. Prune 800 blueberry bushes.



12. Weed the strawberries on the berry hill.


13. Pick up 4 Tamworth piglets in April.


14.. Purchase new day old chicks in March



OK....after reading this list, I need a nap! Perhaps I can wait a few more months for spring after all :-)