It's forecasted to snow tomorrow and it's quite cold. I have set 6 posts for the new paddock in the back field and I am grateful that although it's cold that the ground was still not frozen so that digging the post holes wasn't too difficult. I called Barney, partly in jest and partly in truth, to see if he wanted to join me with the post setting. He respectfully declined and told me I was crazy to be working out in the cold at this time of year. I like working in the cold as

It's mud season in New Jersey. Dreary skies and soaked ground. 2021 was a rather rough year, a hawk killed 7 chickens, the Apple trees had a heavy attack from codling moths and the 17 year locusts, and in the last week of December, the sheep (Woolbur and Fudge) girdled most of the fruit trees in the front orchard and I doubt that the trees will survive. Girdling cuts through the outer surface of the bark and completely severs the cambium around the tree's entire circumference