I tried...

It is Christmas.  I've read where some other western authors made it a point to give their animals something special on Christmas day, and I tried.

But it's 50 above and the snow is almost gone.  When I took hay out to they just looked at me.

Ho, ho, ho...    I tried.

This warm weather is sure a blessing.  We had a week or two of sub-zero weather by Thanksgiving last year, and I had already put out a lot of feed for the cows by this time.  It's a long time until June, so we're not yet worried about snowpack.  We're just glad that we haven't had to dig very far into our haystacks so far this year.