Pioneer Woman at Heart

Yesterday I woke up to this.... A sign fall is here to stay and winter is on the way.  Wood splitting must get into full swing here on the homestead.

This morning's sunrise was beautiful. The pink stretched for several miles. The recent 9 inches of snow is about to leave us.  In fact today.  Crazy as it sounds, the rains are due to arrive today. Winter does not give us a break in physical work here.  My son, the feed and pellet lifter, is working a much unwanted third shift job right now. 

We did get snow on Friday night, but most of it came down all day Saturday.  Thank goodness there was no wind, so drifting was not a problem.  We are getting more snow today too.  I took advantage of the snowfall, and stayed in and cleaned my bedroom.  I was just getting a table ready for Hubby and I to have a candlelight dinner in there, but work called him away. 

"You can't put that thing in the garage! It's a pest not a pet!" I screamed at the kids. "Fine Mom," they said reluctantly putting the baby raccoon in the wood barn. And that's how it started.  As the entire family ooh'd and ahh'd over this tiny raccoon, I remained inside finishing dinner and putting it back in the oven to wait for everyone to come inside.  They saw it roaming around the driveway about 5pm-ish.  They immediately started making phone calls. "No one will take that thing," I tried to explain.  "It's considered a pest." After dinner the kids had made their call and left a message.  The next day, they called back.  They would not take raccoons, but had a number of someone who would. Early in the morning, I walked out to the barn to check on the baby, and my 13 year-old walked out with me.  The first thing out of my mouth was unexpected, and of course my daughter had to repeat it to everyone th...

This little guy was rescued yesterday.  I was up at 4:00am and could not sleep.  When I went to the kitchen, I could hear this high pitched meow coming from the very front window.  I tried to see which cat it was, using a flashlight, but could not.  I did see our barn cat Tim, so I thought maybe it was him.   Later that afternoon, the kids came running, saying "you gotta come see this."  My son said, "I thought I heard something this morning." We, at first glance, thought it may be blind, or have an eye injury the way he held his head to the side.  Once we got him in the cat carrier we saw that he may have been hurt by someone tossing him out their car window, while driving by.  He was underneath a large evergreen that is not far off the road.  It makes me sick that people do this to animals. It's a poor photo, but you can see the little guy is hurt.  My son was able to drive him to the Humane Society for a $30.00 d...