Lots of snow in February

This is the point of the pasture where DS has his archery target, looking out over the hills this morning.

Night pasture early this morning after feeding the horses. This is before the additional 2 inches of hail balls, that came later on this day.

Driveway, not that one can see it.

Night pasture trees

Night pasture run in shed in the early morning.

Back of the house in the early sunrise.

Maggie in Snow

Pawing the snow to make sure the grass is still there.

Maggie having a gallop through the snow.
Maggie is adorable.

Edda Snow photos

This farm is so beautiful.

Edda is standing down hill.

More snow this morning about 3" originally, then we had a break for a little while.

Mother nature added another 2" of hail balls on top of that and afterwards we had some bright blue sky, so I came out took some photos.

Edda trotting and making a funny face. But it is nice getting some new updated photos of Edda. She is a pretty young horse and wanted to get some better photos of her.

Need to scratch that itch.

Getting some air jumping the ditch.

What is cool, is there is 2" of little hail balls on top of the 2"+ of snow, was fun walking through it.

Icelandic's and Maggie the Mini

Miss Maggie

The high winds blowing Dyfra's mane around in a pretty fashion.

Abstract shot of Edda's mane

And a number of photos of Edda, who had to follow me all over the pasture while taking photos to see if she could help.

Tolting to Maggie, not the greatest angle...

Mia update and the downed Grandmother Cedar tree

I have been trying for a couple of weeks to get a good photo of Mia but no such luck, not enough light so I get the possessed kitty photos. DS took these photos today of her in the super bright wash room and got a couple of good photos.

Normally she is not allowed in the dryer.

Mia is doing a lot better, no sign of the abscess and her fur is finally starting to slowly grow back in.

The downed Cedar tree, snapped off about half way. The tree is a lot bigger than it looks here in the photos.

Have a chain saw but it is a bit small for this tree. Need to get it cleaned up but not sure what I am going to do at this point.

Mia's abscess

Last weekend, when my roof was leaking around the Vent for the fan above the oven and having to deal with that.

I saw that Mia had an Abscess at the right back corner of her jaw. Weird shape but being the weekend, trying to find a good Vet wasn't going to happen. She seemed to be doing ok.

On Monday morning after the morning chores, I had DS take Mia to the Vet, to be dropped off and checked out, while I waited at home for Karen to come fix my roof.

Was grateful Karen was able to fix the leak on the roof. Thank you Karen!

Of course is the day the farrier also decided to show up....

I picked up Mia later that day and would need to flush the abscess twice a day.

Busy day to say the least.

Three days later...

Back from the Vet, had a nice long talk with her. Basically Mia got bit, figured that.... those field mice are huge. She is not allowed outside but she does hunt in the garage. Glad I caught it as soon as I did.
The abscess was very deep and in and around the nerves around her neck, also pressing against her wind pipe and spine. Vet had never seen an abscess that bad, over 3oz of puss out of that tiny neck of hers. There is no way to go in and make sure all areas of puss is removed, not where the abscess was. Vet said considering how bad the abscess was, she is doing well.
So she has to keep her collar on until the pocket closes up and I need to keep flushing it twice a day until it does so. Might take awhile.

Of course I will worry until she is fully healed.

She will have to wear the collar until she is healed.

Sadie not overly happy with the way Mia smells and looks but doing pretty well considering.

George Washington's Birthplace

Well, since this is the George Washington's birthplace blog entry, thought I would show the house again.

The Park Rangers were really nice, from taking a photo of us, to driving us around in a golf cart, which enabled me to see more of the place. Would like to give a big Thank you to them.

One of the Bedrooms... love the fireplace and wood work.

The formal dinning room. One of the only original pieces on the table is that little gold colored flask.

Inside of the kitchen... Nice fireplace for cooking food.

The Loom.

One thing I have always wanted to with the yarn I make, is weave blankets on a nice loom. Maybe some day.

Wood fencing looking towards the Monument.

Some nice little out buildings, top and bottom photos. The usual buildings, little stable, blacksmiths shop and so on.

Cute little piglet, from heritage breed of pig. I like the size of these animals, nice and small.

They also raise Tunis sheep but I did not get to see those, this time around.