The big thaw.

Amazing how one good day's temperature can thaw the whole place. When I left for work this morning there was snow over the entire garden; even the greenhouse had ice in it from the chicken's water dispenser. However, at 7pm when I arrived home all we had were a few random snow mounds and an entire garden of grass again. It's so nice to walk up the garden without slipping and sliding on patches of ice.

Happy Christmas to you.

Chickens in the snow

 

Here are two of the girls out in the snow. It was very amusing watching them standing on one foot only, as if it was too cold to put both feet down. Still, they couldn't resist the lure of dropped wild bird seed from the feeder above (and Buck Bucky discovered a piece of warm bread thrown out for the birds) so braved the relative warmth of their hen house to peck around the garden for an hour. .