We had our first snow storm last week, blanketing the ground with just over and inch of snow. Not really that much but it stayed very cold for several days and only finally melted away yesterday. I love the stark shadows of the trees on the bright white snow. I've tried to take some publishable images of the black angus cows and their newborn calves in the stark white landscape, but have been unsuccessful. The contrast is so extreme the cows have no recognizable form unless they are in absolute profile - otherwise they are black blobs. Anyway - there are several new calves between 1 and 2 weeks old. They are very curious and will come right up to the fence to check out what I'm up to when chopping firewood or whatever.
Tracks in the snow all the way from the woods across the road, up the driveway, onto the back porch, lots of tracks around the doorway to the cellar, and back down to the woods again. If they were just a bit bigger I would say they were Bobcat, but I know they are from a very large feral House Cat I have seen around a time or two. There is a small cut-out corner of the cellar door so cats can and do get into the cellar (they keep mice from invading the house). The coming and going tracks were made close together time wise so I don't think he/she hung around very long.
We are expected to get another storm of about an inch or so tomorrow so it will be another 'indoor' day with the high temp expected to be about 25 and the low about 12 with the snow expected to fly in the afternoon and evening. I'll split a little more kindling in the morning and bring some extra wood in next to the fireplaces and the wood stove. Then maybe bake some banana walnut muffins for breakfast. During the day I can either spackle the dry wall defects in the bathroom so I can paint the room or I could build the stands to hold the grow lights on the work benches where the seedling flats will go..... or I could do neither and read a good book and take a nap in front of the fireplace. I'm sure that is what Mosa the cat will do. Well - the napping part anyway. I'm not sure what book she might be reading right now.
