Settling in

I'm fairly fascinated with how quickly and easily this winter came upon us.  What an excellent, seamless transition from the warm season to the cold season.  Love it.  It makes mountain life so much easier to avoid the inbetween season.

My snowmachine trail is well set... it's pretty rare to see it in such good shape this early in the winter.  I can haul 75 gallons of water at a time now, and what that means is that I can catch up- freeing my time to do other things that need to be done.

Meatbirds are doing well- there are still 65ish in the yard, hopefully 57ish after today.  All the hens are locked up due to recent aerial predator attacks.  They're withholding their eggs in protest, but this too shall pass.  A cursory count gave me 105 or so hens, a couple of roosters, and 40-50 little pullets.

I sold my last two bucklings this week.  A guy named Leo met me at the Cash America pawn shop in Muldoon with a wad of $20s and I waved goodbye to my sweet gorgeous boys.  That leaves two wethers in the yard and 22 does.

Now that it's winter, I'm only delivering to Anchorage every other week... which  translates into free time to catch up on projects, like hauling feed and water and minor home/farm improvements.

Our hunts are finished for 2010 in another week, weather permitting- so Ben will be making his way home over the mountaintops after he gets camps closed down.  Hooray! I'm looking forward to having our family together again, and a little help on the farm.

So that's the news.  Nothing earth shattering, just steady progress.  Better forward than backward.