Sadie~

Sadie is not a easy cat to get good photos of..... as much as I love her, she just doesn't have a photogenic face.... until I bought the Canon.

Photo was shot indoors, no flash and lighting wasn't good.
If the camera is this good now, can't wait to see what it will do in good light!
Now if the weather would just cooperate. 

Canon 70D ~

Canon 70D, nearly dark, no flash, indoor and out...   so far I am impressed.  Just using auto at the moment, until read and re read the directions a few times.

The lens is not going to have the range the Olympus has but it is a start.
When ever I come into some money, will get the lens for the Canon, that will really do what I want.

The Olympus would not of been able to handle any of these shots.

Do have filters for the Canon... if it wasn't snow/rain last night, would of set it up right and would of gotten a better shot of the moon.

So far, this camera is a keeper.

The Herd~

Because of the one going very cold weather,, specially at night, everyone is still in the same pasture. 
The only pasture that I have been able to set up a heated water trough.

The other water troughs and water buckets are frozen inches thick or frozen solid.
The weather is supposed to warm up soon.

Not that I am minding the really cold weather.  No bugs... and it isn't too hot out.  ;O)

Tangerine tree

Finally put up the bird light for the Tangerine tree, I bought last Fall. 
It needed a bit more light than it was getting.  Light is not pretty but it is doing the trick.  
Hopefully, I will have tangerine fruit by mid spring.

Baby its cold outstide~~

 
-11* early this morning....  all the water troughs and buckets frozen solid... except the one we have cobbled together in this pasture..... it has a heater.

So, I decided to move all the animals into this pasture, as it would be easier on the humans.

Photos taken at 4pm,, once it got up to 20* not including the wind chill. Was tool cold to take time to aim. LOL

This morning, the wether goats and sheep were spending more time butting heads than eating... they haven't been in together for a long time.
The boys finally settled down hours later.

Then  Syd and the Old ewe decided to go at it... and are still going at it. This kind'a surprised me... I guess Syd decided he didn't want to take orders from an Elder and well... the Elder out masses him over a 100lbs.

The Holidays ~

Ended up with two new games, courtesy of my Sister and my Niece. Thank you both! 

First one is the game called Pente.... which is a lot of fun. The other one is big Boggle. 

This is the way cool Cookie Jar my DS bought me. 

Over all, a nice low key holiday. 

First Snow!

First snow of the year. Ended up with about an inch of snow, not much.  Nice powdery snow, would be great if it did not have an 1/2" of Ice underneath.

Cold that morning -11*, with the wind, it was bitter.....   today it was up to 40* for about an hour this afternoon, but the rest of the week it is supposed to be in the single digits.

DS managed to get the Turkeys into the Hen house.  This batch of chickens have been around the turkeys long enough, they all seem to, for the most part, to get along.