A Cosy Cottage

 At the end of our frosty drive was waiting a cosy cottage in a setting so vastly different than our wide open prairie that we enjoyed the novelty. 

Wildlife spotted during our 4 days at the cottage included several deer, a rabbit, chickadees, nuthatches, cardinals, and more birds.

Though I didn't get pictures of them, we loved seeing pastures full of sheep within a few miles! Not many people enjoy raising our old hobby-farm livestock. They are admittedly a lot of work and not the smartest creatures, but we enjoyed them much more than the angora goats that would never stay in our fences! (And then there were the angora rabbits that fought each other and had to be separated into different cages...)

I loved lambing season so much that weeks in advance I would carry an empty 5-gallon bucket into the pastures, make it into my stool, and sit waiting, watching and begging the ewes to "have your babies!" Since our Lincoln/Finn cross usually had 2-3 lambs each (and sometimes 4), we ended up with several bottle-lambs each year (pictured above). What fun pets they were!

But I have wandered far astray from our frosty drive and cosy cottage. :-)