It wasn't quite 8 am when I had to head out the other day. This was the view from my driveway. The sun was just rising and there was frost on the grass and all the fields. It was very pretty but just a tad cold out side. I still had my coat in the car from the springtime, as I sometimes just toss on a sweater or hoodie when I'm running about to the shops. I keep spare mittens, a toque and a jacket in the car just in case there is car trouble during the in between seasons. This summer though, I just tossed the jacket in the back instead of bringing it inside, so it was where I left it instead of where I needed it that morning, rather than inside so I could wear it!
My hubby has been bragging about how nice his seat and steering wheel warmers on on his new car. I sent him this photo of my steering wheel warmer. Interestingly enough, the mitten photo was taken just seconds after this one, having backed out, parked in the driveway and pulled out my phone. The sunrise had already faded due to the rising sun.
Yes, that is frost on the edge of the windshield. I had to scrape the windows, which wasn't fun. I may have had mittens and a toque in the car, but I had moved my ice scraper into the garage in the spring and had to run into the garage to try to find it. I couldn't find it quickly though, so I had to run inside and grab the tiny hand ice scraper that I used to process flax and sometimes nettle (although a dull butter knife works best for nettle). We went out today and bought me a brand new snow bush/ice scraper tool since the old one has gone walk about! It will certainly get a lot of use one way or the other this winter.
We didn't want any new chooks this year. Honestly, we have 5 older girls and they still lay enough eggs to keep us well stocked and allow a few for co-workers. Not as many as we used to have, but more than enough for us. However, I was chatting at the feed store and we were discussing how they had a chook delivery just a couple of days earlier and a few people hadn't replied to their phone messages, for their chooks, but still wanted them. They were able to arrange a delivery of ready to lay hens the next day and not only the red sex link layers, but they had a few leg horns available. I ordered 2 leg horns. They lay white eggs. When I do Pysanky (Ukranian Easter Eggs), I have to spend a lot of time and aggravation looking for large white eggs, without date stamps on them. One year I ended up finding duck eggs. They were mixed colours, blue, green and white, but they were telling me that their spring duck eggs come from young ducks and that's why they were still small. Hopefully these girls will thrive and I'll have my own decent white eggs for this spring. They're already laying little tiny pullet eggs which look so small against the giant brown eggs.
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