For the last two weeks, we've been slogging through mud and wondering when the sun will be coming out and staying with us. Well it's still cloudy and muddy, but the daffodils are almost ready to bloom, the wild pear trees are sending out new buds and the spring peepers are chirping out in the boggy fields.

I've been bringing the donkeys in the barn on most nights. That means I spend a large part of the next day cleaning stalls but when it's raining or miserable at night, I can rest easy knowing that at least all of my animals are dry and warm.

We've been having 4 or 5 deer hanging around our fields everyday. The grass out in the fields is starting to green up and they love it. I have to remember to get some more salt blocks out in the fields for them.

Time to put my boots back on and slog my way up to the barn.

Sad, Sad night tonight here in Arkansas. We had some very severe storms go right through the state with multiple tornadoes. The first one set down in a little town just about 15 miles SE of me.  Just tore the town apart. Killed 3 people. Cars and 18 wheelers were blown over on Interstate 40 when the tornado went across. According to the TV news, it stayed on a path for 75 miles. Many cities and towns are without power and the temperature has dropped from around 70 degrees when the storms first hit to 45 right now about 3 hours later. We are SO lucky that we have power and all we got was alot of rain.  My heart just goes out to all the people that got caught up in the storms and the tornadoes.

I am thankful that I have my big barn and all my outside animals, including all the barn cats were snug in the barn during the storm.

Last week we had some very strong winds that took down a couple of our biggest cedar trees. Just ripped them right out of the ground. I am so glad that we have a wood chipper. No farm should be without one. I walked down and took some pictures this afternoon and was just shocked at how big the trees were. The picture I have here is one right along the stream that runs into our lower pond. I had my big boy, Jonah, with me and he tried to crawl into the branches. Scared me half to death. I could just see that tree settling down on top of him. It is just so sad to see these big old trees come down. That tree had to be over 50 years old. I've been on the farm for 30 years and it was a big tree when I moved here. Now I've got to figure out what to do with all the cedar chips.