{"id":2705,"date":"2019-02-14T21:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T05:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2019-02-14T21:42:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T05:42:53","slug":"my-snowy-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=2705","title":{"rendered":"My Snowy Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lilies, roses, chrysanthemums and decadent champagne dark chocolate truffles from my dear husband are delightful, but daughter K trumped her Dad\u2019s spoiling today. I don\u2019t know how long it took, I was inside working at my desk, but this afternoon, she dug me a path. From the back door to the barn! And all around the coops! And from the coops to the horse water! It\u2019s life-altering in its own small, meaningful way.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2702\" style=\"width: 996px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2702\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/83bb8142-afb4-4730-84c9-a914b3ece488.jpeg\" alt=\"83BB8142-AFB4-4730-84C9-A914B3ECE488\" width=\"996\" height=\"2048\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you spot her way out there?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nice and wide and right down to the grass (the grass! &lt;3). That means no more struggling out there multiple times a day. I shall stroll. And not only that, this path is wheelbarrow-ready! The snow will take weeks to melt in our muddy valley, it always does,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>but I will be able to do some clean up out there this weekend. Mucking out I wasn\u2019t physically able to do while navigating two feet of snow. It was hard enough keeping everyone fed and watered.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2699\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2699\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/928251c6-56f0-4847-ae7d-bd4a38c3f2bb.jpeg\" alt=\"928251C6-56F0-4847-AE7D-BD4A38C3F2BB\" width=\"2048\" height=\"996\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just a small part of the snow she moved<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The snow means my birds stay penned in their damp muddy yards. I tried leting the black chickens free range yesterday, but the snow is much taller than chickens. One hen didn\u2019t make it home at all, spending the night who-knows-where. She reappeared this morning, wanting nothing more than back in her coop; a wish I quickly obliged.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Now I will be able to clean the coops. This will make my chickens comfortable, which will make me <em>and<\/em> my chickens very happy. So basically dear K has made a difference in the lives of around a hundred souls with her generous work today. Impactful, I\u2019d say.<\/p>\n<p>My new paths have about two inches of fresh snow on them tonight, but it should turn to rain later on, and be back down to grass by the morning. When I shall meander out to do my morning chores.<\/p>\n<p>What a nice person. Her Dad and I musta done something right! \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lilies, roses, chrysanthemums and decadent champagne dark chocolate truffles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-farm-life","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}