If you are able to stay home, I hope you feel "safe at home" not "stuck at home."
It is such a luxury to have the option.
If you are among the people working to keep people and animals healthy, supply chains functional, and everybody fed, thank you so much and please take good care of yourself.
I am thankful that all are well here.
The hens are providing organic eggs daily.
Eloise waiting for the Daily Apple.
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The goats have enough good hay to take us through, with careful feeding, to first cutting. And a delivery from the feed store last week provided my usual Spring top-up of supplies, which my Occasional Helper very helpfully came by to put away for me. I've missed having him here lately, but we usually work together on projects and although he was willing to come, I could not justify the unnecessary risk. (To him, to me, to the world at large.)
However, unloading 50-pound sacks from a feed order is always a solo job, and the bonus since-you're-here task of shifting a dozen bales of hay out to the "distribution centers" saves me a heck of a lot of heavy lifting and dragging for a couple of weeks.
It's uncertain when I will have Occasional Help again,
but I'm certainly grateful for last week's visit.
And I'm not the only one:
Violet, the eldest, tasting the new mineral mix.
Bud, the youngest, waiting his turn to taste the new mineral mix.
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It's been quite cold lately, but unless it is raining,
Piper and I have been taking daily walks along our road.
It's a team sport.
I do the looking...
and Piper does the sniffing.
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There have been many "firsts" in the past week.
The first wood frogs singing.
The first robin in the paddock, first pomegranate finch at the feeder.
And literally overnight, the goldfinches began to color up! One day all the finches at the feeder were the same muted green, and the very next day:
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In other green and gold news:
the marsh marigolds are coming along:
I hope you are finding many things to feel thankful for these days.
It's a gift we give ourselves.
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