Der Oidodder* Update: Twofer
*egg yolk

Paint Away, Madame LeFeye

the girls really earned their keep this morning...

finally. They've been holding out for some reason, or hiding them under the porch or in a leaf nest in the forsythia. Guess they were just so happy to be warm and dry in the coop during the bad weather the last few days, that they decided to give us an abundant Sunday breakfast. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that big one on top is a double-yolker. It's as big as a goose egg.

Wicked...

Wind...

of the West....

Not sure I have ever witnessed a dramatic front like this move through.

Mystery Machinery

When I spotted this little manure spreader out my kitchen window a week or more ago, I knew that Farmer Tom must be juggling farm machinery around between the farms again. Our farm is one of the parking spots for various pieces throughout the year. Within a few days after it arrived, a young fella stopped by while Mike was chopping wood out back, asking if we would be interested in selling it for scrap metal...sorry, don't think so, but we'll let Farmer Tom know you came by looking to buy his "hunk 'o junk" (insert snicker here) A few days later, Farmer Tom stopped by. Before he left he asked where we picked up the little manure spreader...huh?
It wasn't his. Somebody dumped it? Somebody wanted to buy it? Dang, where the heck did we put that phone number?

Pick Up Sticks

An overnight storm ripped through here bringing with it howling seventy mile an hour gusts and two inches of rain. I woke this morning to find the pristine view of the pasture from my bedroom window sadly altered. bummer...