ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

Thanks everyone. I hope that you all have a safe and joyous holiday season!

I must say that right now I am dead tired but cannot take a nap...the kids were up at 2am!!! wanting to open presents. When we told them to go back to bed they got up at 3am!!! and then every hour after until our 7am wake up time.

They were both very excited and I was so happy to hear K say "Santa knows me this year! He really really knows me!"

 

[elevan]

Well...

They are calling for a blizzard in my neck of the woods for tomorrow. 10-12 plus inches and some could see 18 plus inches. Lovely, just lovely. Cross your fingers for me that it's not that bad...please.

 

[elevan]

J2P updated if you're following the story.

 

[bonbean01]

Oh that is so touching...so happy that Santa now knows K

 

[elevan]

Well we're snowed in. DH stayed home from work yesterday and looks like he'll be staying home today as well. It'll take most of the day just to dig out. We've got a snow blower so thankfully that'll be used but we'll have to do the drive, the sidewalks, barn paths and so on. The kids were nearly up to their waists trying to feed last night and it was still snowing then! We heard a bunch of noise from the road and went out to look to find a tow truck in the ditch that had been on it's way to help a motorist in the same predicament.

Our chicken Lucky didn't come into the coop last night and she's one of the only ones that left it yesterday. I hope she's in one of the barns or sheds as she's a mainly white chicken and she left the coop during the height of the snowstorm. She was the sole survivor of our original flock...I sure hope she's not buried under snow. We did lose our Silver Spangled Hamburg during the storm yesterday, her name was Susie and she was brought home to be Lucky's friend after our mink massacre a few years ago.

We're having typical Ohio weather...wild extremes. But going from warm to super cold and snowy is hard on the animals.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Sorry about your chickies Maybe she will show up. When it snowed the other night here my chickens were disoriented by it and couldn't find their way back to the coop. But hopefully yours found a safe dry place

 

[elevan]

Thanks. Still no sign of her but hopefully she will show up.

Snow finally stopped. Don't know for sure how many inches we have but DH has to dig us out this morning so that we can take K to the doctor this afternoon and also need to get B his medicine so no way around it we have to go out.

If we find that the roads are ok enough we'll probably go to Harvest (the store my stuff is in) and pick up some stuff. I really hope the local dairy gets there with their eggnog as I really really want some and they always sell out within hours of it arriving and this is the last they will be bringing for the season.

 

[elevan]

We found Lucky... She didn't make it.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

We found Lucky... She didn't make it.

Sorry elevan.

 

[bonbean01]

so sorry