Snickers is quite the personality. She doesn't seem to be phased by much. 
Getting along with the house cat Pekoe, though, is still a work in progress.
Weekends are the time for jobs that require two heads or four hands. So we usually put our wish list, or our needs list, together as the week-end approaches. Today was going to be: Cut more downed wood. 
We brought down a truck load last week. You can see that it was split and is now drying. We'll need to start using it when we get down to our last quarter cord sometime next month.
Well, the weather became a factor about as soon as the goats went out. That was the last time we saw the sun, as the clouds and snow blew in with the nasty wind that was freezing our ears on the dog's walk. Its been blowing and snowing all day. So Mr. Labor split a few logs that have been drying since last summer.
In case you need to learn the passed down technique, here it is.
Tap in the wedge. Line up the splitting maul. Swing.
One more time.
If you really need to learn, here is a good page to get you started.
This is Maggie, a neat colored Australian Shepard with her boss, Jen.
Cabbage...
Jock came back to pick me up, and got to tour the barn where they distribute the CSA foods. He also got to run around with Maggie and embarrass us with his bad behavior.
Except for the knack of always getting off on the wrong foot with people, the Goat can be charming company. You are elegant and artistic but the first to complain about things. Put aside your pessimism and worry and try to be less dependent on material comforts. You would be best as an actor, gardener, or beachcomber. Some Goats: Rachel Carson, Michelangelo, Mark Twain, Rudolph Valentino, Barbara Walters, Orville Wright.
This article has a couple chuckles snuck in, just when you aren't looking.
Within the editorial is reference to “The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating” which recently appeared on The New York Times’s list of most-viewed stories for 2008.
Check it out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15sun4.html?th&emc=th
Sow Those Seeds!
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
"In August 2004, I wrote a Rural Life editorial about the victory garden movement during World War II, noting that a national crisis had turned Americans — for a few years at least— into a nation of gardeners. Now we are in the midst of another crisis. And perhaps this is the moment for another national home gardening movement, a time when the burgeoning taste for local food converges with the desire to cut costs and take new control over our battered economic lives.
There are signs that some people are already thinking this way. A number of friends have said to me, wistfully, that if things get worse, they’ll just go to the country and learn to farm, as if learning to farm were like studying shorthand or learning to weld. "
Read on...
After a day spent surveying the damage from Thursday's seventy mile per hour winds, cleaning up and making repairs, its time for dinner out and a movie. 
This was the moon last night and today is the full moon. 
This has been a rough couple of days for the twins, especially Trinity. Actually its been a rough couple of days on the farm hands too.
Yesterday the best piece of mail was right on top and I didn't even have to open it. The return address from my Princeton friend, a Ligonier native and Carnegie Mellon grad, had me smiling all the way to the house.
Snickers got to be an indoor cat last night in the seclusion of the kitchen bathroom. 
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