Snowy Halloween

I don't know what this means but we had snow on Halloween. A first for us living out here. Might be a tough winter ahead.

Went to let the chickens out and saw snow.

Blackberry patch covered in snow.

My truck with ice and snow.

My girls did not mind the snow.

buffalo grass 

sugar maple

Splitting wood

With the colder days we can get wood split for winter. We use our own fallen trees and we sometimes buy logs from locals. We heat by wood stove using logs and pellets. This pile of logs was from a felled tree on our pond. The tree fell into the pond and had to be pulled out with a tractor. After a year of sitting in the lean to it is ready to be split and stacked.

We started in the afternoon and it is now nightfall. We got the log pile and a truck load split and stacked. This is one of two splits we make to get through winter. Wood heat is cheap and warms you twice. Once when you cut it and once when you burn it.

 This wood stack becomes a winter home for chipmunks.

Our lean to keeps the firewood dry. The metal cans with lids keep our trash from the bears.

Fixing the fences

My studio in the winter. Wood stove for heat, all supplies on wheels to move around for animal emergencies, boots at the ready, old shepherd warm inside, and sewing machines at the ready. My studio is the real room of requirement on our farm.

Swing to watch the ducks.

This time of the yard gardening is done and canned. So now I can work on firewood and winter chores on the farm.

sugar maples

Splicing barb wire and fixing hot tape fences.

our woods as we walk and fix fences

poison ivy in its fall glory

rocks arranged by someone along our fence line.

deer busted though the electric tape

tree branches always falling in bad spots

There is always something to do on the farm.