This cold keeps me from working outside also. The boys and I have to go out to cut & split wood, but I can’t really go out and use a saw, measuring tape or hammer with gloves on, and that makes for longer hours in the cold if I try to work on the barn or the porch.

As I mentioned earlier in this post, hopefully there will be some warmer days in early February.
I need to have the barn up before the end of March, when the does start kidding!

–Pat

Anyway, weather here has been crazy, as has the Pacific NW – my brother is in the Tacoma/Seattle area, and it’s been over 100 degrees there! Very unusual.
I would be enjoying the coolest (temperature-wise) July since the 1930′s, but it keeps the tomatoes from turning red! Lots and lots of tomatoes and other stuff coming up and growing big, but the tomatoes just won’t turn red!!! Did I say that already?? We are usually canning and drying them by now.

And the bees.. they are not through capping over the honey, si Can’t pull it off and extract it – all I can do is look longingly at all that honey and wait (another 4 letter word, by the way).

We’ve had so much rain that we haven’t had to put water in the goat watering tanks for a few days now.

Hope it clears soon and I can harvest honey!