Dooley- Living like a pioneer!

[Henrietta23]

Looking forward to having you stop by when you can!
Enjoy your snow. We finally have some here. DS is loving it!! How great to get it just in time for Christmas vacation. Instead of just a snow day to play in it, we have all week. AND he got a new sled for Christmas!! Usually that's a guarantee of a snowless winter around here.

SNOWLESS winter?!

It has happened in Connecticut once or twice in my 40+ years here. We usually get some, some times a lot, but every year I got a new sled as a kid we barely got anything!

 

[Dooley]

Looking forward to having you stop by when you can!
Enjoy your snow. We finally have some here. DS is loving it!! How great to get it just in time for Christmas vacation. Instead of just a snow day to play in it, we have all week. AND he got a new sled for Christmas!! Usually that's a guarantee of a snowless winter around here.

SNOWLESS winter?!

It has happened in Connecticut once or twice in my 40+ years here. We usually get some, some times a lot, but every year I got a new sled as a kid we barely got anything!

Murphy's law...

 

[Dooley]

Not much happened today. Wind wasn't as fierce today, but it was still biting, even though the temp. was close to 25-30 degrees. Puppy was cold, so we came in early. Having pot roast and sweet potatoes for dinner!

 

[Dooley]

Practiced my guitar this morning! Still can only play one song (my username), but I'm learning new chords all the time and whatever I play no longer sounds like a screeching cat.

 

[BarredBuff]

Thats good!

 

[Dooley]

Ahhhck!!!

I went out into the barn this afternoon, and the entire place was in shambles! Turns out, the entire herd of goats had slipped through a gate (I had forgotten to lock it... ) and had been on a destruction spree all day! After I stopped laughing, I sent my wonderful angel of a dog to gather them up (so easy... Without him it would have taken FOREVER) and set to work cleaning up the mess.

They had ripped open a bag of shavings and eaten half the paper, tipped over a bag of kelp meal and another one of oyster shell, spilled the bucket full of golf balls (golf balls... everywhere... ), and left little berries scattered across the floor. Oh, and they overturned a trash can.

And to think, earlier today I was lamenting to myself how nothing interesting had happened in ages...

 

[BarredBuff]

I would have lost all sanity if I was you.

 

[Dooley]

I would have lost all sanity if I was you.

Awww, how could I be mad at all those sweet faces? They were all so happy to see me!

"Look, Mommy, we found a new jungle gym!"

 

[Wannabefree]

I would have lost all sanity if I was you.

Awww, how could I be mad at all those sweet faces? They were all so happy to see me!

"Look, Mommy, we found a new jungle gym!"

I'm with James on this one! I'd have found some goat barbecue

 

[freemotion]

When I was a kid we came home from a Sunday out of town, sub-zero weather (many, many degrees below zero!) and found that one of the goats had opened the faucet full blast. There were several inches of water, freezing, throughout the barn and the horse had broken a stall wall down and she and the calf and and the goats were all huddled on a tiny patch of floor that was not under water.

We shoveled water for hours, then put scraps of boards in the remaining water to create a non-slip path since it would be there until spring, and coated the top with ashes from the stove just before it completely froze. It was there for months!

Dad built a box over the faucet that you had to stick your arm into to turn on the water. That was fun in the summer, with my pathological fear of spiders!