Cider Bend: February

 January and February are typically some of the hardest months on the farm. That hasn't been the case this year, because we've had such a crazy, mild winter. I've spent a lot of time outside in just a sweatshirt, and I haven't had to do any snow shoveling at all. It's felt a lot like the beginning of spring. No complaints here!

Random Stuff:

We've had the usual beautiful sunrises and sunsets on the farm.

The sunrise on my way out to feed the animals.

A pretty sunset as we finished up our goat walk.

We finally got a little bit of snow, and I was excited for everything to look white and pretty, instead of brown. It didn't last long.

Cats:

I didn't really get any pictures of Stormy this month, but she is doing great! She actually looked so good through the winter; I would say a little plump even. We see her on our cameras catching mice all the time, and I feed her plenty, so she never has that to worry about.

Michem and Floof are great. Michem has trimmed down so much! She looks like a normal cat now, instead of part hippo. I'm sure she feels better too.

I love this picture!

Every Thursday I try to scrapbook, and Floof is a HUGE pain in my butt! I give him five chances, and then usually end up kicking him out of the office. He either lays on my stuff, right where I'm trying to work, empties my trash faster than I can fill it, tries to drink out of my water bottle, etc. Good thing he's so dang cute!

We often find Michem rolling around on the floor trying to catch her tail. 😂

This is my grandkitty Bean. Sawyer got Amanda this snuggly thing to wear with a big pocket in the front for Bean. He loves it! He just snuggles down in his pocket while Amanda is gaming or working on stuff for school.

Chickens:

I think my chickens have really appreciated the mild winter. I don't usually sell eggs until spring and summer, but they have been producing so good, I'm already selling to some of my regulars. Their eggs are looking awesome too!

One of their favorite days is when I clean out the fridge!

I had another company reach out to give us free product if we'd make a reel using their stuff. We made one of how we clean the coop, but I couldn't download the reel with the audio. I put the boring, no sound version on here anyways.

Revitalime is the product we highlighted.

On Valentine's Day I gave the chickens a bucket of alfalfa, and they had it all spread out in minutes!

I've been terrible keeping up with my farm social media account, but I did manage to put up a couple chicken reels this month. I start the year off with good intentions to build our account, but I truly just can't find the time to keep up with it. 

We finished off the last of our garden pumpkins. It was a fun treat for the chickens.

Donkeys:

Willow and Clover are as cute and sassy as ever. I'm excited for our Airbnb season to get underway, so they get lots of interactions with people besides us.

Willow loves when I bring a bale of new bedding into their stall. She lets me cut in in half, and then she guards it from me and Clover so she gets to empty the bags and spread the shavings all by herself. She takes her job very seriously, and nobody better interfere. 😅

Here is Willow coming at me for treats. I'm asked quite often about the donkeys pinning their ears. This is not a mean or aggressive gesture. This is a sign of play. She really is the sweetest thing, with just the right amount of hilarious sass.

Hopefully in the next month, the trails will start dying out enough for us to start taking the donkeys out on them. We've got a burro race to get them in shape for this year!

Goats:

The goats are so chill and easy going that I feel like sometimes they get forgotten. I would never actually forget them, but more like they get the least amount of attention. My goal this year is to take them on at least 10 walks a month. We've been having fun on all of our walks. Plus they are pretty chubby, so hopefully this will help. Enjoy some little clips from our adventures around the farm.

Ginger-Roxie-Dolly

Here is Sawyer making fun of them for being chubby. 😆

Cows:

One of my very favorite chores on the farm is feeding the cows dinner. I miss half of the cute stuff they do because I can't get my phone out in time. Usually the more I cheer them on, the more they perform. By the time I dump the bucket of hay, Opal is so fast I miss most of her bucks and jumps. I can't wait until summer when I can give them a bath and get all the winter grime off them. I want clean, fluffy cows again.

The cows have been loving our sunny days. I went out one day and thought Ace was stuck in the fence, but he was just basking in the sun.

That's it for February's farm news. I hope spring is on the way and we aren't going to just have winter hit us extra late. I'm ready for the farm to green up, summer farm projects, hikes with the donkeys, fruit on the trees, etc...