October 2009
Our First Egg!
Oct 22 was a most exciting evening here at The Red Snowshoe. One of our ‘Maggies’ had made the age old transition - girl to woman, pullet to hen. Yes folks we had our first egg!!! The gals were hatched May 25 and according to ‘Barnyard in Your Backyard’ you should start seeing eggs between week 20-24. Well, right on schedule folks at week 21+. I went out at 8pm to tuck all the critters in and low and behold there it was a perfectly formed brown egg. I was so excited you would have thought I’d laid that egg myself!
Our first egg in situ.
Dino hopefull for another egg!
A Beautiful Autumn Day
Winston and Blunt hang back in case this is some kind of goat BBQ. Also note large burn pile in background - details to follow...
We had our first snowfall today! We've heard MANY, MANY different takes on the winter weather in our little bubble. As we are in a valley, nestled up against a mountain the conditions can vary greatly so we're prepared for 'weather' come what may. This snowfall will probably only be on the ground a few days but it gives us a taste of things to come...
Our First Egg!
Oct 22 was a most exciting evening here at The Red Snowshoe. One of our ‘Maggies’ had made the age old transition - girl to woman, pullet to hen. Yes folks we had our first egg!!! The gals were hatched May 25 and according to ‘Barnyard in Your Backyard’ you should start seeing eggs between week 20-24. Well, right on schedule folks at week 21+. I went out at 8pm to tuck all the critters in and low and behold there it was a perfectly formed brown egg. I was so excited you would have thought I’d laid that egg myself! - R -
Our first egg in situ.
Dino hopefull for another egg!That Beaver is Not so Dim
On one of my morning gasp and wheezes (aka the run) I stopped to have another look at the stump that the beaver had used for the waffle interruptus. I initially thought that the beaver was a bit dim, as why spend all that time cutting down a tree that was too big to manage. Turns out not so dim after all. As Henry Ford once said ‘nothing is too complicated if you just break it down into parts’. After doing a bit of research on beavers, they do in fact eat wood, not use it strictly for home furnishings.Also a single beaver can take down 1,700 trees per year, so we are expecting more power outages in the future!
Our next power outage...
A Beautiful Autumn DayThe First Burn
Ok - I realize every entry is named The First this, or The First that, but that is because that is what it is. Now, like our primative ancestors, we too enjoy sitting around a campfire, or in this case a burn pile, but to be able to do it on your own property, while drinking wine out of a jam jar, well that just suits us fine. Clothing optional...
Winston and Blunt hang back in case this is some kind of goat BBQ. Also note large burn pile in background - details to follow...The right outfit for every job!
Well, it was bound to happen. 
First Snowfall
We had our first snowfall today! We've heard MANY, MANY different takes on the winter weather in our little bubble. As we are in a valley, nestled up against a mountain the conditions can vary greatly so we're prepared for 'weather' come what may. This snowfall will probably only be on the ground a few days but it gives us a taste of things to come...
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