Coulter Family

This week Missouri actually got the kind of snow that Colorado gets!!! We got 6 inches of snow and it has snowed about 2 inches everyday this week except for yesterday. Today we are suppose to have an ice storm. I thought we were done with this extreme weather, but I guess not! Since this much snow at one time is pretty unusual for Missouri, all the schools around us were closed all week! So Dad got the week off of work too. Even though the roads are challenging to travel on, all of the snowing and blowing has made for some great sledding. We have been having a blast playing in the snow that we have missed the rest of this season! Taking care of the animals is more challenging with the snow. Its so exhausting just walking around in this snow to get to the animals. Thankfully, for the most part, everything is close to the house. The pigs are the only ones that are farther away. The birds don't like this weather. The chickens stay in or close to the egg mobile all day. This makes p

Posted by: Maddy  We are in the middle of winter. I am totally ready for spring! Everything starts turning green, and the weather starts to warm up again. Summer used to be my favorite season until we moved here. Now spring is my favorite. The temperature is perfect. Not too hot, not too cold. Just right. Spring also has excitement that comes with it. The lightning shows are pretty cool! I will have to post a video of one sometime. Since winter started we changed how we manage our animals a little bit so that it would make things easier with the cooler weather. We brought our sheep into the corral instead of having them on the pasture and moving them because we were breaking fence post stakes trying to stick them in frozen ground. We needed to give them hay anyway so we brought them closer to the house. We also expected them to lamb within the next couple of weeks as well. We moved them in sometime in January, and still no lambs. Some of us are starting to wonder if they are real