SNOW! and espaNol

It's snowing again. And this time I'm pumped because I'm not awaiting the safe arrival of anyone in the midst of it. Minus the difficulties of getting a loaded wheelbarrow through it last week, it was fun and absolutely beautiful. Tho I'm not looking forward to the trek to the bathroom tonight... :/ hmm.


There are mountains back there.... no, really.


There's the gander - he's still alive! He mostly chills out with the hens these days...

Brrrrrr...



I wish I could let them in...but then my hut would smell like wet dog. ...but look at Maddy's eyes.... poor puppy.

See Betty in the door way? She's a smart cookie. She has me so well trained that I bring the hay into the doorway for her. Genius.

View from my hut...
I think it's another soup night tonight. :)


And a total tangent - I've got a new language partner here on the dairy. His name is Bernadino. He's in his late 30s/early 40s (I think) and is from southern Mexico, but has lived in the US for over 20 years. He's got 4 kids who all live with him in Estancia. When I met him this morning I asked if he'd be okay with me practicing my Spanish with him, and he immediately agreed. So we've been chatting a lot. Over lunch I told him that I'd gone to Argentina to learn Spanish...and we ended up talking about racism among South and Central American soccer teams. :) I'm totally not fluent, but, Dude, I can definitely communicate. (?!?!?!!! who knew?!) It was super fun...and I can feel all these old connections in my brain re-firing and shooting off little spark-spittles. Such an exciting and awakening sort of feeling.

Between this and the baby goats, I could be pretty happy here my last month and a half... :)

I love Spanish! :)