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Post by jamshundred on Mar 21, 2018 16:56:49 GMT
I remember last February there were weeks of spring like weather and I had such a case of spring fever that was dashed in March with an unexpected snow storm. This year I vowed Mother Nature was not going to fool me again, and when warm days arrived in February I ignored it and refused to have any enthusiasm about it at all. Kept my vow. Good thing at that. View from my office window today.
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Post by genebo on Mar 21, 2018 22:55:23 GMT
What a white-out!
We got a couple of inches, enough to make it pretty. Most was gone by dark.
The little calves, Beegan and Evette, had a ball running in it.
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Post by kaldakur on Mar 22, 2018 12:40:01 GMT
It was 14 degrees this morning in Northern MI. I had to thaw my fingers with a hairdryer in the tack room of the barn. If we hit 32 today that will be really warm. I'm quite ready for the snow and ice to melt, as are my animals. Needless to say, I'm really looking forward to the "real" spring. These kind of days I ask myself why I chose to live here.
I love your calf names Gene!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2018 14:34:52 GMT
I am not the only one that uses a hairdryer. When it is real cold blow the hairdryer in your gloves to heat them up before you head out. It buys you a little extra time outside before your hands freeze. Look on the bright side Amy it is the changing seasons that give us rain for the summer growth. It is the warm winters that I worry about as it often is followed by summer drought. Hoping this cold(normal) winter will break are drought.
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Post by genebo on Mar 22, 2018 20:00:46 GMT
I try to have some meaning in the names, generally with an Irish connection.
Beegan is Irish for little. I pronounce it as Big'Un, which here in the south means "big one". It's a joke, since he's so small.
Evette is the granddaughter of Legacy Eve of Paradise. She is even smaller, yet, so the diminutive suffix.
Winifer is descended from the WIN-dridge line and the FER-moy line.
It helps to pass the cold, wet, snowy days until warm weather. We are due our 4th snow in the last month. Rare for this part of the world.
I think that Sally Coad has us all beat when it comes to making up new names.
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