We're waking to snow again this morning; it is coming down steadily although according to the news on MPR it should stop by noon. I've been outdoors already and it just doesn't seem all that cold...or maybe I'm acclimating.

The pups are doing well, even the little gals, and Trouble is being a great mom for a first-timer. She's a lovely Bouvier. For those of you who were waiting, yes BIRDIE is PREGNANT! She'll come here in a couple weeks to have and raise her pups. Seth (my son whose family companion Birdie claims) has conveniently planned a roadtrip to the east coast during that time. He tells me he had enough puppy raising chores as a kid!

I did move the chicks out of the house yesterday; it was all a bit much for even me ~ my friends know that our old farm kitchen has been home to orphan lambs, ducklings, chicks, piglets ~ as well as a place to make chevre and bottles of milk for calves ~ but even I needed to draw the line this time around!