2-16-2019 Birds and a cougar!

The birds, deer, squirrels, and chipmunks have been very hungry with the snow covering everything. We have gray jays, scrub jays, stellers jays, juncos, chickadees, nuthatches, sparrows, robins, varied thrush, flickers, crows, ravens, and others. I feed the birds seeds, suet, and peanuts. The squirrels and chipmunks get seed, and the deer get apples.

Saw cougar tracks just behind the barn!

2-12-2019 Heavy snow brought down some trees

Lost 2 alders behind the barn and had to have Forrest cut another 3 leaners. The big maple between the upper field CREP and the lane fell over right into our big, beautiful, 18 year old cedars. We lost 12-15 of them. Rats.

River is high, but flooding minimal and only in the lower field.

2-10-2019 Beautiful in the sun

The snow is so beautiful when it's sunny.

These "tracks" were made by heavy snow falling off the power lines overhead.

2-9-2019 Snow!

Amazing the difference a few days makes out here in early spring. We got at least 12-16 inches of wet snow. It stuck around for over a week. The lane was deep and not able to get out except with the ATV. The good news was because it didn't melt, we only had minor flooding in the lower field.

2-7-2019 Another beautiful morning

2-3-2019 Getting drinking water at Apiary Spring

We typically bring water from town, but when we run low, we get water at Apiary Spring.

2-2-2019 Cutting down ash under the power lines on Buffer Swamp

7-8 ash trees under the power lines needed to come down. Eve secured a rope high in each tree. We didn't want them to fall into the lines, so Baker pull on the rope while Eve cut them down.

Eve cut down one of the trees last month. The beavers hauled away all of the branches and small firewood pieces, and took the bark off the bigger pieces. Hopefully, they will haul away all of the branches from the trees that we cut down today!

1-31-2019 A beautiful morning!