Thank goodness for laptops

The house is lovely and warm.I went down and checked the firebox and it is full of beautiful red hot coals . The kitchen wood stove is chugging away and soup is on cooking. But it is 3am and I am not sleeping. So I am blogging and writing out Christmas cards. How wonderful I can communicate via laptop. We visited the Arva flour mill today ,but they did not have large bags of flour so we will have to go back another time.Their flour grinder person is due sometime this week. We did pick up some beautiful oats though.The rain has dampened our moods here a bit and even the chickens did not want to venture out today. Ken said when he went to put them to bed they were all in trying to dry off and our beautiful white rooster looked like he fell into a mud pile. Speaking of chickens , if you remember we bought a whack of chickens from our friends David and Sue in Guelph , well they have grown to be absolutely beautiful. Most of these are Mollies, so their colours are stunning. These chickens have the feathers that grace their legs. We ended up with a few roosters in the mix , but so far they only spar occasionally and it is funny to hear the newer guys trying out their crowing voices. They each sound different and we can generally tell who is crowing without looking.The young roosters will crow and their crowing voices will crack , so they try again and again until they are satisfied they have gotten it right...it is funny to hear.  We are looking forward to decorating for Christmas this weekend coming.Wanted to cut pine and cedar today but the rain kept us indoors. There are lakes in the fields around here ...if that had have been snowfall we would have gotten quite a pile. We will do a table top Victorian tree again this year, and most of the decorations will be baked this week. Please do drop in for a drink of good cheer if you are able . Well  I had better go and finish my cards before the ink dries in the ink well...see you soon
M