Brain freeze- Snaphappy playing & learning

[snaphappy]

Lol nope horses hiding behind the barn today

But the firepit and seating is under there and that is a tall 3 rail fence not a very short 2 rail fence

Oh should add those huge chubby chickens under the tree aren't there either but one is roasting in my oven MMM smells good

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Lol nope horses hiding behind the barn today

But the firepit and seating is under there and that is a tall 3 rail fence not a very short 2 rail fence

Just checking. I know how you Canadians are. LOL

 

[snaphappy]

Poor unhappy Rascal

 

[Marilynne]

Poor unhappy Rascal

What happened? Hope Rascal gets better soon.

 

[Rexer John]

A cat in a good home has a life, that us cat servants (aka owners) can only dream of.

Here's my puddy tat, hope you don't mind me posting a pic in your thread.

 

[snaphappy]

Oh Marilynne he's just fine but when I picked him up from his former (disgusting) home I was told he was neutered but wasn't told it was very very recent! He's since licked himself open again with his cleaning so I got him a collar to curb his licking and allow his body to fully heal. He just wasn't happy about his collar but it is best for him but as you can see he realized he could relax just fine with it on. It's a rough life for a kitty

No worries about your addition Rexer John I don't mind at all nice kitty cat My kitties should go out and rid my coops of rodents but instead are found sunning themselves in front of my window LOL I also have a big kitty tree like yours but nope they're stretched across couches, and chairs. It's a terribly rough life hehe

 

[snaphappy]

 

[snaphappy]

Hauled LOTS of water today so my waterfowl could do some splashing in the sunshine. They only got small puddles to splash in as they're still up on 12+ inches of hard packed snow

Alot of water flying in their happiness

 

[snaphappy]

The geese had sooooo much fun today in their new pool. Hauling the 40gallons of water after already filling the 3 heated water buckets and 2 smaller pools for the ducks was not much fun though. The garden area where the geese is MUCH deeper snow as it's close to the driveway leaving it to get the snow blown all winter and its sheltered with the green house, duck and pony shelter on one side and the house on the other so the snow just sits there. I have a 4ft fence around the garden area and then there is electric fence strung up above that to keep horsey heads from helping themselves to my garden in greener months So that tub is sitting up on about 4ft of hard packed snow

Lucy watching Romeo enjoy that pool

Leandra came over to stick her head in as well

Loved the sun shining on the girls heads

Lucy joined Romeo for a swim

and then she sprayed him

Silly man did not get the hint with the spraying

Such an amazingly uncoordinated exit LOL

Nope won't win any photography awards for composition etc but their joy made me smile and I enjoyed capturing those moments

 

[Marilynne]

Silly man did not get the hint with the spraying

Such an amazingly uncoordinated exit LOL

Nope won't win any photography awards for composition etc but their joy made me smile and I enjoyed capturing those moments

At least he didn't fall flat on his face on exiting!

 

[piperbarb]

The geese had sooooo much fun today in their new pool. Hauling the 40gallons of water after already filling the 3 heated water buckets and 2 smaller pools for the ducks was not much fun though. The garden area where the geese is MUCH deeper snow as it's close to the driveway leaving it to get the snow blown all winter and its sheltered with the green house, duck and pony shelter on one side and the house on the other so the snow just sits there. I have a 4ft fence around the garden area and then there is electric fence strung up above that to keep horsey heads from helping themselves to my garden in greener months So that tub is sitting up on about 4ft of hard packed snow

Lucy watching Romeo enjoy that pool

Leandra came over to stick her head in as well

Loved the sun shining on the girls heads

Lucy joined Romeo for a swim

and then she sprayed him

Silly man did not get the hint with the spraying

Such an amazingly uncoordinated exit LOL

Nope won't win any photography awards for composition etc but their joy made me smile and I enjoyed capturing those moments

Thanks for posting. They made me smile, too.

 

[snaphappy]

Marilynne the male is the white one taking over the pool. Pilgrims have white males and grey females so as goslings and adults you can easily see who's male and female. The brown one is also a female but she is a different breed she's a Buff Today I was taking pics of the ice table hubby took out of their pool after our -19 night

 

[snaphappy]

This morning the goose pool was frozen so poured 5gallons of water on top until it melted enough then hubby pulled the ice out for me as it was HEAVY

Ice table or sculpture

backed up to put size in perspective (notice camo kitty getting followed by geese)

 

[snaphappy]

More goose pics

Not a wing you'd want to get beat with!

The girls splashin in the tub after sending Romeo out

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

I would not have thought that these birds would do that good in that cold a climate.

 

[nikonpup]

you should try peddling your gray goose ice at a local drinking hole.

 

[Roy1961]

nice pics, nice clear wings against the snow.

Edit, post#200

 

[nikonpup]

i would not have thought that these birds would do that good in that cold a climate.

they are canadian geese working undercover.

 

[snaphappy]

Tracsoft have you used a goose down duvet? If you ever get a chance to dig your fingers inside a gooses feathers go for it (just make sure its held REAL tight LOL them wings are brutal!). The layers and layers of feathers are amazing and they LOVE this time of year. These girls are 3yrs old now and the male 2yrs. The first year I had the girls and the ducks in an insulated coop with a sheltered run and they hated it. I'd go out and it'd be -35-39 and I'd shoo them into the coop and out they come to lay on the ice. In the summer I worry more about heat and have kiddie pools all over the yard for them to splash in and cool off. We have many many wild Mallards that live year round here which is amazing to me they are able to feed themselves. My ducks and geese are very well fed and have shelters if they want to get out of wind etc so they do very well even in our arctic like weather

Nikonpup canadian geese are smaller than these guys And if you seen what they do to their water in seconds you would not want any of that Bwahahaha

Thanx Roy1961 I had my 70-300mm lens on for those pics and I was too close so even at 70mm I cropped his lovely wings More to learn and I'm sure I'll get more chances to try again. WHite on white is hard so looking forward to white on green

 

[snaphappy]

feathers on the snow
my family rolled their eyes and told it was ridiculous to take pics of feathers and snow
but it caught my eye and I tried a few angles and a few different settings but much later realized I should have taken my CPOL filter off

I liked the angle of the tree shadow on this one

this got a snap because it was so darn exciting!! I found green! I found an earthworm! A real live earth worm!