COLD outside.

George, our one and only buck, says - "Happy New Year!!! It is FREEZING so far!"


Yes indeed, it is freezing. . . That photo and the following is really what it looks like throughout the farm lately. It has been beautiful, sunny, and clear. . . But also freezing, frosty, and completely shaded. Across from our farm, on the other side of the road, is a huge line of tall trees that always blank out our sunlight for the winter, and so in tough times like now, the only areas that get sunlight are the far end of the pasture and little tiny temporary strips through the Bachelor Pad, the Polish Pen, and the main lawn. Anywhere else, it is an almost eternal darkness, constantly coated then re-coated with thick blades of frost.







Even our Yak is frosted! And no, this isn't snow. .. It's frost. It doesn't bother him though. Yaks are originally a species originating and toughing out the cold Himalayan mountains.





And yes, he had the opportunity to sleep in a warm barn. . . He tends to enjoy the cold weather we don't often get, and spends a lot of late night time out in it.

But, in the short moments and small spaces of sunlight, even the least cold hardy animals survive. . . Our Shamos, for example, are naturally a desert-type chicken, and do not do well in cold, however our pair is doing pretty well.





And, the next breed of chicken to not like the cold sadly doesn't get much of a chance to get out in the sun, but when they do, they really enjoy it. . .




Well, I hope you're doing well and warm wherever you may be reading this! It normally isn't snowy or icy here, but we do experience what you're seeing for a few days to a week per year. We normally get frost, yes, but not this heavy except in a coldsnap or two per year. This is our second one. Well, technically half of it is in the new year, but. . . I count a whole winter in one year.