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.