A new year

The last day of 2011 and the first day of 1012 were so warm and sunny, today is sunny but still below freezing at 1:38 pm. It took a long time to get all the stock a warm drink of water. Still have to make the trip over to the sheep pasture to feed and haul hot water to melt their water tanks. Hopefully there will only be couple of days this harsh weather, it would just be too hard to do this all winter.  Sheep love this cold weather, they can be seen running and jumping in the air, just because it feels good. Goats are not so happy about it, even tho they have on a mohair jacket, they are not thrilled by it. And that blowing wind messes up their hair. Goats will hunker down and wait for it to pass, sheep just back up to the wind and rain and endure it. The farmer is in and out warming hands and drying gloves by the wood stove. A great day to be inside spinning yarns of wool and mohair.