Rainy Days and Paradigm Shifts

It's cold and rainy on the farm, and apparently I forgot how much I hate both.  As an aside, apparently I have been spelling apparently wrong for a good many years.  Go spellcheck!  Back to the point, I love a nice warm spring rain, or a huge summer thunderstorm, but cold autumn rains just bum me out and make me think too much.  I'm actually a little grateful for the punkish baby that kept me inside today though because it was cold out there and I didn't want to go out. Nursing a "sick" baby is a perfect excuse to sit in my nice warm chair under a nice warm blanket in my nice warm house.  So hooray for whininess and snot, and sorry to my farm family who had to work.  You looked almost toasty warm in your coveralls, coats, scarves, and hats.  Actually, seeing you dressed like that made me more convinced that I should stay in!

The winds are actually making it a bit creepy tonight, but all of the animals are hunkered down and surprisingly quiet now.  One of the horses did that scary neighing thing like they do in the movies earlier, but that was it.  If you believe the movies, horses make that sound all the time, but that's the first time I have heard it here. I haven't seen a lot of my favorite animals lately because of weather and laziness, but PIG has been putting in multiple appearances.  He likes to hang outside my front door these days, which pleases me greatly.  Lucy loves him and we play a Where's Waldo type of game with him.  I will miss him greatly when he leaves, but Mr. McBee  has promised that there will be another funny pig to watch once he leaves.

I did see plenty of other animals though.  Word must have gotten out that I have a soft spot for dogs and cats in the rain because there was a whole line of them outside my front door and two to three of them curled up on my couch at any given time.  I know they have nice warm beds out there, but not as warm as my couch.  Of course once they start tracking mud everywhere I will probably lose some of that soft heartedness.  There was also a steady stream of my favorite kids today! They helped me get everything put away and rearranged furniture for me multiple times so we could maximize our space.

In addition to that, I had plenty of time to think and the dreary day led me to do a lot of it.  I have had several big shifts in thinking lately and I'm not sure where it will end.  I will post more about that tomorrow, or later tonight after punky girl finally goes to sleep.  Yes, she's still up at nearly eleven but she doesn't feel good so it's excusable and we'll pretend it never happens otherwise.  I have to make it out for chores tomorrow, while I don't technically have any, it feels wrong to sit inside while everyone else is working.  I wonder if it's like that at all farms or if it's unique to McBee, the desire to pitch in and help.  I am naturally a lazy person and have fought against that my whole life, but we stayed with friends over the weekend and it felt really wrong to not be here at chore times, and I've only been here a week.  The idea of everyone else working while I was napping just seemed wrong.  Or course that was before it was cold, it didn't seem quite so wrong today.  Wondering if I can milk goats in a snuggie.  Will find out.