Winter at Foxcroft: four stars.

 Winter at Foxcroft Yelp review :

Four stars**** 

Withholding one star, as we are still in a pandemic,  12 rooms still have stalactite ceiling treatment and the oven is on the fritz. 

This is our first winter outside of Ohio since the last century. Currently, it is in single digits to negative ones in Ohio, and I am not sad to miss it. The struggle to care for the animals in this weather is all consuming, and well remembered. So, for all my beloved friends in Ohio, I feel for you!

In Charlottesville, we have been enjoying an Ohio style February, with snow and ice. But, the temperature hovers around freezing, instead of well below, and we more frequently have sunshine. These are some of the solid reasons we had for relocating! I don't have my traditional winter miseries of swollen hands, feet, tongue and lips. The neuropathy is mitigated, I can feel my fingers and toes almost all the time. They are rarely gray. We can spend so much time outside, enjoyably. It is wonderful.

Still snowing on the Southwest Mountains. 

Pearl and Jules making fresh tracks. There are tracks to the left of a cheeky fox that is still hoping for chicken this winter. 

The main barn stays pretty cosy. 

Thus far everything has been working well,

 except a few pasture outlets for trough heaters that have not worked. 

Home sweet home!