In Alberta we can have the weirdest weather. The saying goes "April showers bring May flowers". This is a very old saying indeed. We are at least getting some warmer temperatures however we had a snow storm again last night. About 3 days ago we were at +9 and now we are getting snow. This up and down weather can go on for another month. There are many times where we will have snow at the end of May.
The great thing about all of the percipitation is our house collects all of our water that we use. So we will have plenty of water this spring and summer. It is just coming as snow instead of rain.
We are between puddles and snow. The puddles are almost the same depth as the snow depending where you walk. This last snowfall is full of water.
As you can see it is weighing down the young tree. Some of our winter snows are very dry and there is hardly any moisture in the snow.
The animals seem to be handling the weather just fine. They are happy that it is warmer. This is Sugar and her last years girl. They are huddled up trying to stay dry.
This is Elle she is due to have some kids at the end of the month. I could only get a side view but you can see she is quite wide. She will probably have two kids this year. We have to feed the goats in many places in the pen because she is hogging all the food and trying to keep all the food to herself. She spends quite a bit of time guarding all the food spots. It is quite funny really.
Our duck finally had ducklings. There are 9 of the sweet little ones. She tried back in January to hatch but it was too cold. Today we will get some wood shavings, food and water in there for them. Right now they are living off the yolk from the egg. They can survive three days with out food and water just by living off the yolk. Idealy it is best to get food and water to them as soon as possible.