It's going to be a beautiful day today! Woke up in the 20's but promises to get into the 50's and stuff is melting at a rapid pace now. Good thing too, as hay is getting hard to find and it'll be at least 2 months before the hay men are able to cut and bale. The girls are all getting rather plump and miserable. Poor Ruthie looks like she's going to pop. She's due on the 19th, but I'm predicting the 14th. And of course it's supposed to rain for 8 straight days around then. I've begun the awful spring task of cleaning up outside. I have a mantra now...." the pitch fork is my friend" and I say it over and over as I move wet heavy, sometimes frozen piles of hay and poop from the goat pens. But it's worth it, because once it's cleaned up and the ground dries, it'll be beautiful out there and we'll have kids running and playing on all of the toys that have been buried in snow for the last 6 months. Well, y'all have the very best of days!
M
