Today we’ve got our first real snow of this winter. Here’s a few pics of the animals.

Cows out in the snow storm

The cows don’t seem too bothered. They’d rather eat than get out of the snow.

A snowy little donkey

Lucy is our donkey. She doesn’t eat as much and was sheltering against the fence when I went out.

Lucy asking for an apple

She was happy to eat the apple I took out for her.

Below is a picture I got of a coyote back in our “Secret Field” two days ago. I have an automatic scouting camera back there. This was at 11:25am.

Coyote passing through

All the wall covering is off the south bay window wall. Was some nasty mold behind there that’s all gone. This will have new walls with proper insulation, wiring, lights, etc. Another big pile of scrap wood to turn into heat in the wood stove.

Bay Window wall stripped back to brick

One of the real joys of living on the farm is being self sufficient for our winter heating. I’m way behind in being ready for winter, but today in less than an hour I filled the Treker twice with wood from dead trees around the old orchard.

Second quick load of firewood

This will keep us warm and toasty until the weekend. With the dry(er) forecast for the next few days I’ll let things dry out a bit more before I cut more. This is some of the wood I pulled out of the swamp late last winter, all dead ash trees flooded out by beavers in the 70’s.

Dead ash trees skidded out over the ice from the beaver swamp

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving. Last night was our first real hard frost of the fall. Fitting perhaps that the wild turkeys were out in the field when I went to take a picture this morning.

Frosty Field & Wild Turkeys on Thanksgiving