Week 2 of 2013

We have had company since Christmas Day here at Coffee Lake Farm. Rebekah and her Mom and Dad came to visit us, and her dad, Grant had to take care of some business locally also.

But during the visit, Rebekah celebrated her 8th birthday, which happened to be her golden birthday on Jan. 8th. Above you see the beautiful cake her mother Ricki made, it was a 7 layer cake, with rainbow colors for each layer. We had some of the Stanley family here to celebrate her birthday with pizza and cake.

During the visit Rebekah has been learning to ice skate, her dad and mom have had her down on the ice almost daily for some refreshing exercise and fresh air. She has gotten pretty good, and enjoys it a lot, because in Washington, where they live there is no frozen lake to skate on.

We have experienced some weird weather here in the last week, we've had rain and warm temps, followed by a cold snap that put us below zero last night. Needless to say everything is icy and slippery. Along with the weather, I have been suffering from a cold, and I thought I was out of the woods earlier this week, until, yesterday when I came down with it all over again, bad cough, chills and a temperature at times along with a stuffed up head and general achiness all over. We are usually pretty healthy here, and seem to avoid a lot of colds and flu but not this time.

This morning I fed our llamas and horse another bale of hay and checked their water supply, and also played fetch with Smarkle, while doing all of it. Smarkle lives for chasing the bright green tennis ball all over the yard. You can't go outside where she isn't dropping a ball at your feet waiting for you to pick it up and chuck it so she can run and fetch it and bring it back to you.

Hopefully the next few days I will get over this cold, and take care of some projects by next weekend. I need to run some garbage up to the garbage facility in Aitkin, and all the Christmas decorations need to come down and get put away for another year!