Out Around the Barn

I believe I wrote about a similar subject a while back but decided to write about this again since I took a spill last evening and am now nursing my sore body back to whatever it is to feel normal.  We have had such a mild and warm winter and it has been so pleasant, but now, here in Illinois, a cold, and I mean single digit cold, has finally arrived.  I miss the warmer temps but I am glad for the freeze, I just hope it stays long enough to kill the bugs and insects so we are not over run by them this summer.

As, I mentioned earlier, I took a spill last evening while trying to get some hay for my goats.  I am not sure exactly sure what had happened but it was right after dusk had settled in and the ground was frozen and all of the sudden, I was falling to the ground and hit it hard.  I am so lucky the pitchfork landed away from my falling body so I didn’t land on it.  It sure seems strange that three days ago we were wading in mud and now the ground is frozen hard as a rock. 

The weather can change things so fast and the fact that it is so difficult to walk on frozen ground where cattle have recently trod that I am guessing I either lost my footing and tripped over a frozen pile of, well you know, or I had a spell of vertigo.  Whichever it was, it was not fun.  So in light of all of this, be careful of the changing weather and the ground surfaces.  I always feared ice, but now, well I fear frozen manure, how funny is that. 

Have a great day everyone and now that we are getting things better organized, we will be posting more.