Hello Cabin Fever.  For the last hour Max has been laying sort of curled up like a pretzel, very cautiously stalking his tail, and ever so stealthily when his tail least expects it, he pounces and then tries to rip it off.  Grace has been compulsively eating everything that crosses her mind and every time she calls me you would swear our Donkey Pablo has moved indoors, the traditional "Mom" comes out "Mooouuuuhhhmmm" and then is followed by either "I'm bored", "I'm hungry", or if I sound agitated when answering her "I love you".  Miss Bethany is her congenial self, offering kisses to any foot that passes her way on the floor, and trying to share Max's Rawhide, which he doesn't mind so much as we do.  All of this of course is strung together by the usual random acts of boredom, manic personality changes and sudden bursts of energy which generally produce unfavourable consequences.  Then there is Miss Beth and her partner in crime, Max who wait patiently to see the baby gate open into the hallway and then trip anyone in the way as they dive into the depths of Grace's room, better known as "The Cave", eating whatever they can possibly stog in before someone scoops them both up.  Grace informed us this morning that she feels like she is living with Aliens, when I asked her why she thought this she shrugs and says "because Bethany looks like one".

ALIEN BABY HELPING HER BIG SISTER MAKE BISCUITS

THREE MUSKETEERS

Farm updates are, to us, seemingly dull these days.  There is no major projects or excitement right now, just the usual humdrum of activity and typical necessities getting done, which in itself requires considerable effort when the weather is like this.  Our generally agreeable tractors take hours of heating and charging to get running, sliding doors are iced over and need to be pried and chipped open, the strings on the straw and silage bales are frozen into the bales and have to be ripped out by bare hands, water lines to the livestock are frozen and the lists go on.  It's days like this that I would like to be able to help out more in the barns, and thankful that I am not. 

LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!!



CAME ACROSS THIS PIC TODAY, A NICE REMINDER THAT SUNNY DAYS ARE AHEAD! 


So friends, a short update to sum up our current status before I return to refereeing.  Grace just yelled for me to find her some sort of blindfold to put on Max, and I just looked over my shoulder to find that she, at some point, was rummaging in the fridge and left the door open, now all I can see is what appears to be two tiny baby feet sticking out from above the crisper.

PLAYING WITH THE CAMERA

GRACE PAINTING SOME MAGNETS SHE MADE TODAY

STANDING ALONE!