Just another soggy Sunday........

Yup, another rainy day in WA. no surprise really. Except the weatherman DID say it was supposed to be a mostly dry weekend (granted it was said last week and it IS a weatherman doing the prediction). I was really looking forward to cleaning out the chicken coop and barn from all the "leftovers" from the critters during the snow party.

No such luck, guess I'll have to wait. Darn. :P I decided to do a little picture taking during feeding this morning.

I'll start with the most shocking picture....I don't normally take pics of myself (let alone let anyone else take one) and I definitely try to at least run a brush through my hair beforehand. Not this time. Here I am in all my glory, no make-up, sweats and messy hair. Ginger didn't care though, I love how animals enjoy visiting with you no matter what you look like. :)


There was plenty of soggy poultry waiting to be fed.....the guineas looked the worse for the wear.....madder than a wet guinea? (or does that only work for hens?)


Didn't slow down the chorus of "buckwheating" going on....


My Narragansett tom thought the rain was so much better than the snow, much easier to strut his stuff....


Is this a face only a mother could love (or a turkey hen)?


Hey! Take a pic of ME! I am after all the handsomest male on the farm (this rooster did seem to demand I take his pic):)


There also were many soggy sheep, Bevin says "I hear it's dry back home in OR!!"


Matisse says "let's get the donkey to distract her and maybe we can escape and hitchhike back to OR.....or maybe go further South and go hang out on a CA beach....


The smart ones of the barnyard were these three girls, hanging out on a stall door. I honestly think they thought I would come over and hand feed them their breakfast.


The other smart ones were the kitties, Coopurrr and Hooch, snuggled up on the front porch.

My Witchhazels are starting to bloom, they have to be my favorite wintertime plant. The colors are so vibrant and defiant against the gray cloudy days.

Hey! What happened????

All of a sudden, Fall is here. Fall in this part of the world equals rain....and lots of it. Actually Winter, Spring and part of summer equals rain too...in varying amounts.

Hmmmmm, guess I should have got that moss off the barn roof before the new moss started growing...



The cool weather has the emus racing around, and they were definitely wet. Here we built that nice little run in shed for them...not even sure they really use it!

Rain kind of adds an interesting look to an already interesting "emu do".....

Here's Ginger....

and here's Fred....



The chickens managed to stay dry under the overhang of the barn, I was hoping to get an image for the saying "Madder than a wet hen" but it's not going to happen today. This girl looks far from mad.....

Although I think they were all getting fairly irritated with me...didn't I know that I was supposed to feed them?


I started looking around for the sheep and the donkey and spotted them in the lower pasture...

The second one of them spotted me they started heading up the hill.....
They were definitely wet, and some were sporting some major VM!

Here's Bella doing a little cud zen with a nice hunk of blackberry vine woven into her wool....
Bevin and Ellen are looking a bit damp and Ellen has a lovely fern motif going on.....


Claire was thinking "Can I go back to Eastern Oregon now?????"


Flora was in such a hurry to get up the hill to see if there was something better to eat she brought a little of the lower pasture with her. That's Ilse, her best friend, next to her...

Disappointed, milling sheep, waiting for the hay to show up.....

Jasmine said she wasn't in the mood to have her picture taken and didn't I know that donkeys are desert dwellers and not fish?
The guineas also reminded me that they are originally from Africa and shouldn't be subjected to such abuse....


















Coopurrrr, my little feral cat, was thinking that maybe I should be considerate and put down something he could walk on top of the wet pavement so he could get into the garage where it was nice and dry....

The rain didn't bother the young dogs at all, in fact, I think they thought it was funny the reaction they would get out of me by bumping into my bare legs with their wet toys....(almost said "wet balls" but for some reason that didn't sound right....)


Yep, you know it's boring here when all I can find to blog about is wet animals.....:)

I will be going on another sheep adventure soon though. :) Next weekend I will be heading back to OR to the OFFF (Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival) so hopefully will have some more interesting material after that! What? Am I picking up another sheep.....why yes! I'm picking up a lovely little Shetland ewe named Shady Oaks Matisse, a moorit HS (no t) sweetie. :) The scary thing is that there will be room in my trailer....I'm thinking about loading it up with something and only leaving enough room for one sheep.......