Around our barn: some of the round hay bales are stacked there and our barn cat Flower likes that mice habitat. She is definitely a little independent hunter, but also loves her "rolling up on the lap and getting petted forever" time. Our last year's Longhorn calves get their hay thrown over the fence as much as needed. A bit more this past week, when it was so cold (cold enough, that the school buses weren't running for two days ! Joe and Ben enjoyed the days home). But now it is much milder again, which makes it easier for the animals, for feeding, for driving etc. The barn itself has no animals in it. We do have three stalls ready if needed for an emergency, and the rest is for storage. On some of that softer storage Flower made herself a comfortable home. She has been with us for a good month now, someone must have abandoned her and all we noticed middle of December was tiny tracks in the snow mostly around the barn. She is very alert, runs to "her" barn as soon as there is an unusual sound, but also loves to be petted by us. Flower knows the winter routine very well; late morning one of us comes to feed the calves, then sits with her on a bench in the winter sun and spends half an hour petting her, then she gets her food in the barn.
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