Our grandson, new lambs, old pups and our first spring flowers

Our first spring flower! Bright and welcome dandelions poking their heads up at the edge of the house where the sun beats down.

We are thoroughly enjoying our little lambs gamboling about in the yard! Our ewes are such good moms too!

And the dogs are in seventh heaven. It's time to 'Play Ball' again now that the snow is gone from the yard. Well, almost gone!!

And finally, after 5 months of waiting for the roads to be passable and lots web cam visits and lovely photos from Jill and Charlie ... David and I stole a few days to get down to Vancouver to meet our grandson; Aiden! And what a beautiful boy he is!!

Three pies worth!

Our blackbirds.

Enough for at least three pies! :)

Their numbers have swelled in the last few days. Their song echos around the meadow. We counted more than seventy red winged blackbirds this afternoon! They decorate the view out our kitchen window and grace our trees with their beautiful flashes of colour!

Moose the lamb

Our newest and last lamb of the year just a couple of hours old here ~ we have named this little guy ' Moose' ! He is a big lamb; long legged and long bodied. That's a portrait of his mom below. Her name is Snowball and Moose is her first lamb. It was a difficult birth for her but she's doing beautifully now and is proving to be an awesome mom! Moose is finding his legs and learning how to keep his big head up. It's been snowing the last few days. All three lambs and their moms are still in their comfy lambing apartments till it's a bit more spring like outdoors. Soon they'll be bounding about out on fresh spring grass and as Matthew; one of our wood ring folks said " ...they'll be making the place look like an Easter greeting card come to life!" :) It's lunch time and we're just warming up one of our favourites ~ homemade (of course) split pea soup. mmmm.

The new lambs ~ a few pics.

St Pat's Day.

St Patrick's Day on the meadow.

Red winged black birds singing high atop the old spruce trees at the main gate.

Coyote wakes up from his afternoon siesta in the middle of the open meadow and the moose pay no attention.

Our resident cow and her two calves grazed for a couple of hours on the ridge across the creek. They are so comfortable with us; it's a lovely thing. We hanker for a telephoto lens so that we can really get close up and personal.

And indoors, our kitchen table tulips reach full bloom. Another spectacular day.

Brand new lambs!

"Shorts" (or Shorty for short :) our first spring lamb ~ was born March 8th at 9:30pm. This little ram lamb promises to be an entertaining addition to our wee flock. He and 'the Mrs' are doing just fine.

Then, last night at 11:15pm Missy delivered a ewe lamb. It was not an easy or quick delivery but the gentle shepherd was on hand to assist and in the end, all was well.

The weather has turned cold again today but the past few days of warm winds has melted a good deal of snow. Last summers dried grasses are poking up here and there and the meadow 'lake' that appears every spring is beginning to form at the low spots. Soon we'll be watching for the Trumpeter Swans and Sandhill Cranes on their spring migrations.

Our waning winter.

After quite an impressive blast of winter last week, the last few days have brought warm winds and rain resulting in some tremendous puddles around the place. Small ponds really :)

This is the driveway yesterday ~ the steep hill that runs from the main house up to the 8km of road that David maintains. This 8km road connects to the main logging road that takes us into town.

Our creek ~ showing signs of spring, and this morning our first Red winged Blackbird returned. Such a welcome sight and sound!

The grandson! An update

Young Aiden at not quite 4 months old. :)

A little chinook and a beautiful sunny day

Coyotes, moose and winter vistas

February days. Lots of fog, and still lots of snow. We've had some wonderful visits the last few days from a coyote, a moose and of course our black fox. The 3 or 4 year old bull moose who has been hanging about took a shine to the nicely stacked hay bales in the covered hay shed, helping himself to the odd snack. The hay is for the sheep so although we had to put a stop to his free snack bar, our big moose isn't going hungry. He's been pruning our trees and grazing and doesn't seem to mind our attention one little bit. We got some great video footage of him. It's a beautiful time of year made ever more so by the promise of spring.