No real theme to this post – just random days this month so far. In between working on a new startup idea (that doesn’t seem to be panning out ), I’ve been doing a variety of stuff around the yard/house to keep busy and get caught up.

Still collecting firewood from the pastures (and along the park road after some of the recent storms):

The chickens enjoy having some fresh hay to break up the monotony of winter mud. Plus, it keeps them busy by giving them something to peck around searching for food.

Dee Dee trying to show Darby how to dig for gophers while I was working on firewood. Unfortunately, Darby has the attention span of a gnat:

Dretti in his usual posture:

Been installing all sorts of outdoor security lights. The driveway is now very well lit between the house and barn, much to the displeasure of the barn cats.

So, we traded one of our barn cats for a (temporary?) indoor/outdoor cat from a cat rescue group. Lisa named him Hef – he doesn’t really Meow as much as just says “hef”. He’s cool with the dogs, but they aren’t sure they like an indoor cat. Particularly not one that wants to share the couch, bed, etc with them:

I walked down the park road the other day rather than having Rob drive all the way to the house to give me a ride to the auto shop. Its actually really hard on the shins to hike down the road in hiking boots. Ouch. Next time, I’ll wear sneakers or something more compliant. Felt more burn than I ever did hiking down any of the Adirondack Mtns. I looked over the edge of the road in the really deep/steep ravine section. Its a long way down…

Final thoughts – doesn’t this seem like two events that just ought not share the same venue at the same time? Or is it just me…

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