Cold Snow

It was 22 degrees when we woke up but by the time daylight crept in enough to see it had dropped down into the teens. We walked anyway all bundled up. The snow was just beautiful covering every everything like lacy beautiful white flowers on every branch and twig.

Diane took the picture below of us on the walk. 

Joan and Heather had to pose for a picture by the pine tree for all of their friends in Haiti.

 The snow is beautiful but makes morning chores more difficult. Every feed bucket had to be cleaned out before dumping in the grain and the horses just don't understand why they aren't already eating. Valiant was really funny. He was peeking out of his shelter then walked out to check out how deep the snow was before taking off in a gallop and throwing in a couple rears and bucks.

Mark was busy most of the morning plowing the drives.

 We have a very special GMO female Cedar tree on our property. This tree is very rare and a male GMO Cedar tree must be planted in the same vicinity in order to harvest the amazing eggs the female tree produces. We have tried to keep this tree a secret as when the mature GMO female Cedar tree lays her eggs we actually harvest them and BURN them in our wood burner.  When we heard about the huge fine and jail time for destroying an eagle egg we for sure don't want the environmentalist to find out about us destroying these rare eggs.  Below is the male tree, we weren't sure it was mature enough to make this happen. The male trees are always beefier kind of like bulls and stallions. They just seem to have more muscle mass in their thick branches.

Well last night during the storm our GMO female Cedar tree finally laid a wonderful batch of these eggs. We didn't notice until our walk when Joan saw them. The female GMO  Cedar tree carefully lays her eggs around the trunk then shelters them from the storm by her branches. Our tree had a huge amount of eggs this year. As you can see below these eggs are more of a log shape and fit wonderful in our wood burners.

If you believe all of that I have a couple smaller of these trees (pictured below) that are for sale for the low price of $150,000.00. It is the perfect size for a starter kit and they are guaranteed to produce lots of these wonderful burning eggs in about 50 years.

In other news Ruby's male puppy Wilson is now sold and will be traveling to Seattle in a month to his new home. His owners are thrilled.

There is just ONE Cavapoo puppy left. Rhoda is calling him Wyatt. Just check out that face with those puppy eyes begging for petting, he is longing for his own family.

We are having the coldest night and day of the year. The thermometer just kept dropping today. It is now down to 4 degrees and will be below zero by morning with wind chill factors in the -10 to -15 degrees.