85 thoughts on “Christmas Eve in the Barn, 12-24-22”
Donna Koch
Merry Christmas from eastern Washington! 🎄
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Susan Dangelser
Merry Christmas 🎄
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Judy
Merry Christmas from Brookfield Wisconsin
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Sharon
Merry Christmas to you!Christmas day in California will be 80 degrees,does not seem like Christmas at all! I love looking at your snow pictures. I don’t want a blizzard ,but I would sure like a little snow ⛄️
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Jane dumler
Wonderful—there is nothing like a barn
I hope the snow has quit and the winds are gone. We had 45 degrees and sun in Denver today. A blessed Christmas to you, your hubby and all your four legged friends.
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Gayle
Merry Christmas, Mary! ❤️🌲💚
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Margaret in North Texas
Merry Christmas to all!!
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Carol Reents
Merry Christmas to everyone at Country Threads Farm.
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Heidi
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Hope you have a blessed and safe holiday. Look forward to the New Year with you.
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Mary Rhodes
Merry Christmas to you, hubby and wonderful animals!
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bobbie rumler
Did you get to church tonight hope so I need all the help!!! Merry Christmas in Iowa I’m in AZ
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Alice
Merry Christmas from SW Ohio! Because of road conditions here I’ve delayed our Christmas until Monday night. Fortunately my grandkids are older (17-21) & understand! Couldn’t do this as easily with little ones!
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Patty in Laguna Niguel, California
Merry Christmas! 🎄
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Jean Elliott
Merry Christmas!
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patti leal
Merry Christmas to all at Country Threads, and to all the subscribers near and far. Stay warm everyone. patti in florida
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Dee from Shell Rock
Merry Christmas! I thought there were goat pictures but the manger was good.
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Marylise
Joyeux Noël de bourgogne en France !
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Sandi
Merry Christmas from south Alabama. Hugs,
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Charlotte S in northern California
Merry Christmas!!!
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Marsha from Kansas
Merry Christmas from Kansas.
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Kathy
Merry Christmas to everyone near and far! May the new year bring you all good health and happiness.
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Fiona at Ice Bear Quilts
From the Netherlands, Merry Christmas Mary and Rick! And Merry Christmas to all in the Country Threads Chicken Scratch community.
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Janice Brown
Merry Christmas from Michigan.
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Kathy in western NY
Look at the light in the manger. Beautiful serene picture. I missed our Christmas Eve candle lighting service as it was cancelled. Service today is a go as thankfully roads are good, winds calmed down but our kids live local and come over for brunch in their pjs. Stockings are hung on the mantle with care. Eggs casserole, sausage loaves, hash browns, spiral glazed ham, monkey bread, fruit, and cookies. Merry Christmas to one and all and Mary, our blessed Angel for caring for so many animals all her life.
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Sue Hoover
And a Merry Christmas to you!
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Joanne
Merry Christmas from Massachusetts🎄
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Elaine Kopischke-Trejo
Merry Christmas to you and all from Wisconsin! Stay warm and safe and May peace surround you
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Pamela Dempsey
Wishing y’all a very Merry Christmas 🎄 from northeast Texas! Stay warm ❄️ 🥶
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Cathie
Merry Christmas to you and Rick from Fredericksburg, VA.
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Connie R.
Merry Christmas from far NE Wisconsin.
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Rita in Iowa
Mary and Rick and all of the readers and quilters, MERRY 🎅 Christmas 🎄. Mary thanks for the wonderful barn picture.
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Pattie From PA now in Texas
Merry Christmas from the hill country of Texas. Was able to attend a beautiful Christmas Eve service last evening at Mt Olive Lutheran Church in Austin. String quartet, choir, piano, candle light, all so focused on the reason for the season. Hope everyone has a memorable Day with family and friends in spite of all the weather hardships we have been experiencing.
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Vicki Ibarra
Merry Christmas to all. As we reflect, consider that we too often underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. May 2023 be a year where we remember and purposefully carry this out more often. This blog is a digital smile for me. It brings joy and often shares these elements of kindness: Jo with her work with the jail, many of the readers with their work with animals, the support woven throughout the comments….
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Connie R
Vicki, How wonderfully put. The true gift of Christmas all through the year. Thank you for reminding us.
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Mary EtheringtonPost author
Vicki – Amen!
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Susan Sundermeyer
Merry Christmas to all from Dayton, Ohio. It’s only 6 degrees this morning, but we are having a beautiful sunrise. Give Glory to God!
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Pat Smith
Merry Christmas to you, Mary and Rick, and to all the readers from around the world from Stowe, VT where it is cold but beautiful.
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Midgeh-Illinois
Merry Christmas!🎄
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Joyce from NY
Merry Christmas to all!!
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Carol L
Merry Christmas to you all. Beautiful weather here in NW NE.
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Sheila in WI
Thank you for sharing the manger picture. So appropriate. Merry Christmas, Mary and to all my fellow readers. 🌟🎄❤️
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Peggy Grandberg
Merry Christmas Mary. Have a wonderful holiday season.
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Karen
Such a beautiful thing …a manger.
Shows that even the most important people come from humble beginnings. And No person should ever think themselves unworthy of great things Or belittle themselves thinking they are not good enough. And what a better time of year…Christmas… the birth of our lord Who lays in a manger.
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Linda
Merry Christmas to all from frozen Saginaw Michigan. Once again we should pray for peace so people stop killing each other, Russia realizes the sins they are committing on the poor people in Ukraine and they quit the atrocities and peace for all the world like that which is found in Mary’s barn and my barn.
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Rosalie
Merry Christmas, Mary and readers!
I hop your weather is better snd you have a wonderful day.
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Deb in Idaho
Merry Christmas to all, have a blessed day
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Lori
Merry Christmas Mary and Rick,
We were just having a conversation about chickens, as my daughter is new to chickens and this is her first winter with them. This past week it has been -25 degrees or so. Do you heat your barn? She has a couple space heaters and her coop isn’t very big.
How warm should it be for the chickens and guineas to be comfortable?
Enjoy your day.
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Mary EtheringtonPost author
Lori – I choose to heat my barn and most of my neighbors laugh at me but I don’t care. The chickens are cold, too, and I keep it about 40-50 with a hanging L.B. white heater. Maybe the heat is more for my comfort than theirs but so be it. With our temps their combs and feet will freeze. I have a very old hen who got lost outside in the bitter cold years ago and her toes and then feet simply turned black and fell off. She lives with a heat bulb in the infirmary with another blind hen. I don’t think they’ll survive at -25.
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MartyCae
Merry Christmas to you and yours! Keep warm and cozy!
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Sandy
Merry Christmas Everyone from Sunny San Diego.
Sandy
Merry Christmas to everyone from chilly Waterford. Michigan!!
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Jeanine from Iowa
Merry Christmas Mary, Rick and clan, and to all the faithful readers of this wonderful blog! What would we do without it? Like so many, I am so happy to see an email from Mary. Thank you again, Mary for all you do for all of us. We wish you a blessed day, and may the New Year bring new joys and happiness to you. God bless each and everyone of you, the readers, and Mary and Rick. Our wind has finally died down from what it has been for three days. We have a Christmas service at our church this morning.
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Carmen Montmarquet
Wishing you and Rick and wonderful and peaceful Christmas!
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JoAnne from Wisconsin
A very Merry Christmas to you and hubby too! Love your posts, keep them coming!
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Jill Klop
Merry Christmas!
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Jeanne from Colo.
I agree with Vicki Ibarras comments too. Why can’t we celebrate Christmas 365 days each year. Be kind, be loving, be good to one another, and be as Jesus would want us to be. Merry Christmas to everyone. Thank you Mary for sharing your life of quilting and animals with all of us on your blog. It’s such a fun connection with ‘friends’ all over the world. Mary, did you make it to church last night? There’s warmer days ahead.
Have a blessed day everyone. Jeanne from Loveland, Co.
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Debbie B
Merry Christmas, Mary to you and yours! Enjoy! Stay warm!
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Claudia Voorhees
Merry Christmas…….
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Cheryl Regan
Merry Christmas to you as well! I’m hoping the weather clears for you soon!
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Maureen
Merry Christmas !
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Karen Cyr
Merry Christmas, Mary! May the snow and cold abate and the manger be filled with love and animals for many years to come.
Karen in MD
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Linda from Georgia
Merry Christmas
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Jan Pittenger
Merry Christmas, Mary! Thank you for the manger picture. Love you and all the animals!
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Sharon F
Merry Christmas from the CA desert, where it’s sunny and warm. Thank you for your blog all year long and sharing the beautiful and inspirational reader quilts, as well as the news and stories from your life.
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Jan Hebert
Love the manger scene. The reason for the season. It’s cold here this morning but going up to the mid twenties today. I’ll take it. No snow here yet and the rest of the week looks clear and warming up to fifties by the end of the week! How strange is that? We’re staying home today, my husband isn’t feeling great and doesn’t want to spread anything to our kids. Our daughter Amity and her fiance are getting married this coming weekend! I pray he’s better by then and that I haven’t gotten whatever it is. We will have our Christmas with both families later in January. Merry Christmas to you, Mary and to Rick. And Merry Christmas to your readers all over the world! Jan in MA
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Tina W in Oregon
Merry Christmas from NE Oregon! Our yard has a quarter inch of ice all over. Funny to listen when our dog crunches through it. I hope everyone has a peaceful and joy filled day.
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Kris in WI
Merry Christmas to Mary & Rick and all her readers. Thank you, Mary, for your picture of the manger and it’s reminder that, while we may be by ourselves this Christmas due to the weather, we are not alone, for God is with us.
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Linda
Merry Christmas!
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Colleen in Oregon
Have a merry and blessed Christmas everyone!
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Jane A Busby
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Kathy L
Merry Christmas 🎄
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Meredith in Cincinnati
Merry Christmas to everyone! Peace to all in this holy season.
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Sandy
Merry Christmas to everyone from new Zealand! Boxing day morning here and a nice day, enjoy your day and relax! My love to you all, best wishes from Sandy
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Kim from TN
Merry Christmas Mary, hope your animals are snug in the barn. Its bitterly cold here in middle TN. We opened our home to a friend who has been without electricity for 1.5 days. Her home hit 30 inside. Power outages are on-going. We are enjoying the company, doing some puzzles and eating lots of goodies.
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Mary EtheringtonPost author
Kim – 30 degrees is way to cold to stay there – thank you for taking her in.
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Celeste in WI
Merry Christmas to you and Rick!
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Brenda
Kind of late to the party, but I also wish Mary and her many followers the happiest of the Christmas season…from snowy and cold Brainerd Mn 🙂
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Bonnie McKee
Beautiful manger picture!
Merry Christmas to all!
Bonnie, in Oregon
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Shirley S
Merry Christmas from Highland Meadows Lavender.
Shirley from Oregon
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Gloria B - Illinois
Mary, I look forward to your manger photo each year. It’s another reminder of what we’re celebrating. May the warm feelings from the manger fill your hearts today and all the days ahead. Merry Christmas!
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Denise
A Very Merry Christmas. God Bless
From Texas
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Diane, Squeak, and Buddy in Central Ohio
We had an awesome Christmas! Our nephew from Columbus called yesterday to ask if he could bring his friend from church and her foster child. Of course! They came and the foster ended up being a beautiful 18 month old boy. We pulled out the grand kids toys ( they are 21,20, 19, and 18 now) and had a truly wonderful day. The foster mom received the call on Thursday that she had 2 hours to get ready for him. She is awesome and we were happy to share Christmas and that beautiful little boy. 🎄👼🏻
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Vicki Ibarra
What a wonderful loving heart from the foster Mom as well as you! I am glad that young boy had the Christmas he had with you.
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Diane, Squeak, and Buddy in Central Ohio
Thanks, Vicki. I liked what you said above, too. We all need to take a step back and reach out with love. When I taught school, I had my 10th graders practice saying please and thank you at home, in stores, at school or wherever they went for one week. They were amazed at the positive responses. One kid I remember told about getting a bigger ice cream cone each time she used please and thank
you😀. We loved having that little boy with us!
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Nancy Cink
Merry Christmas and best wishes for a blessed & happy 2023.
Merry Christmas from eastern Washington! 🎄
Merry Christmas 🎄
Merry Christmas from Brookfield Wisconsin
Merry Christmas to you!Christmas day in California will be 80 degrees,does not seem like Christmas at all! I love looking at your snow pictures. I don’t want a blizzard ,but I would sure like a little snow ⛄️
Wonderful—there is nothing like a barn
I hope the snow has quit and the winds are gone. We had 45 degrees and sun in Denver today. A blessed Christmas to you, your hubby and all your four legged friends.
Merry Christmas, Mary! ❤️🌲💚
Merry Christmas to all!!
Merry Christmas to everyone at Country Threads Farm.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Hope you have a blessed and safe holiday. Look forward to the New Year with you.
Merry Christmas to you, hubby and wonderful animals!
Did you get to church tonight hope so I need all the help!!! Merry Christmas in Iowa I’m in AZ
Merry Christmas from SW Ohio! Because of road conditions here I’ve delayed our Christmas until Monday night. Fortunately my grandkids are older (17-21) & understand! Couldn’t do this as easily with little ones!
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all at Country Threads, and to all the subscribers near and far. Stay warm everyone. patti in florida
Merry Christmas! I thought there were goat pictures but the manger was good.
Joyeux Noël de bourgogne en France !
Merry Christmas from south Alabama. Hugs,
Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas from Kansas.
Merry Christmas to everyone near and far! May the new year bring you all good health and happiness.
From the Netherlands, Merry Christmas Mary and Rick! And Merry Christmas to all in the Country Threads Chicken Scratch community.
Merry Christmas from Michigan.
Look at the light in the manger. Beautiful serene picture. I missed our Christmas Eve candle lighting service as it was cancelled. Service today is a go as thankfully roads are good, winds calmed down but our kids live local and come over for brunch in their pjs. Stockings are hung on the mantle with care. Eggs casserole, sausage loaves, hash browns, spiral glazed ham, monkey bread, fruit, and cookies. Merry Christmas to one and all and Mary, our blessed Angel for caring for so many animals all her life.
And a Merry Christmas to you!
Merry Christmas from Massachusetts🎄
Merry Christmas to you and all from Wisconsin! Stay warm and safe and May peace surround you
Wishing y’all a very Merry Christmas 🎄 from northeast Texas! Stay warm ❄️ 🥶
Merry Christmas to you and Rick from Fredericksburg, VA.
Merry Christmas from far NE Wisconsin.
Mary and Rick and all of the readers and quilters, MERRY 🎅 Christmas 🎄. Mary thanks for the wonderful barn picture.
Merry Christmas from the hill country of Texas. Was able to attend a beautiful Christmas Eve service last evening at Mt Olive Lutheran Church in Austin. String quartet, choir, piano, candle light, all so focused on the reason for the season. Hope everyone has a memorable Day with family and friends in spite of all the weather hardships we have been experiencing.
Merry Christmas to all. As we reflect, consider that we too often underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. May 2023 be a year where we remember and purposefully carry this out more often. This blog is a digital smile for me. It brings joy and often shares these elements of kindness: Jo with her work with the jail, many of the readers with their work with animals, the support woven throughout the comments….
Vicki, How wonderfully put. The true gift of Christmas all through the year. Thank you for reminding us.
Vicki – Amen!
Merry Christmas to all from Dayton, Ohio. It’s only 6 degrees this morning, but we are having a beautiful sunrise. Give Glory to God!
Merry Christmas to you, Mary and Rick, and to all the readers from around the world from Stowe, VT where it is cold but beautiful.
Merry Christmas!🎄
Merry Christmas to all!!
Merry Christmas to you all. Beautiful weather here in NW NE.
Thank you for sharing the manger picture. So appropriate. Merry Christmas, Mary and to all my fellow readers. 🌟🎄❤️
Merry Christmas Mary. Have a wonderful holiday season.
Such a beautiful thing …a manger.
Shows that even the most important people come from humble beginnings. And No person should ever think themselves unworthy of great things Or belittle themselves thinking they are not good enough. And what a better time of year…Christmas… the birth of our lord Who lays in a manger.
Merry Christmas to all from frozen Saginaw Michigan. Once again we should pray for peace so people stop killing each other, Russia realizes the sins they are committing on the poor people in Ukraine and they quit the atrocities and peace for all the world like that which is found in Mary’s barn and my barn.
Merry Christmas, Mary and readers!
I hop your weather is better snd you have a wonderful day.
Merry Christmas to all, have a blessed day
Merry Christmas Mary and Rick,
We were just having a conversation about chickens, as my daughter is new to chickens and this is her first winter with them. This past week it has been -25 degrees or so. Do you heat your barn? She has a couple space heaters and her coop isn’t very big.
How warm should it be for the chickens and guineas to be comfortable?
Enjoy your day.
Lori – I choose to heat my barn and most of my neighbors laugh at me but I don’t care. The chickens are cold, too, and I keep it about 40-50 with a hanging L.B. white heater. Maybe the heat is more for my comfort than theirs but so be it. With our temps their combs and feet will freeze. I have a very old hen who got lost outside in the bitter cold years ago and her toes and then feet simply turned black and fell off. She lives with a heat bulb in the infirmary with another blind hen. I don’t think they’ll survive at -25.
Merry Christmas to you and yours! Keep warm and cozy!
Merry Christmas Everyone from Sunny San Diego.
Sandy
Merry Christmas to everyone from chilly Waterford. Michigan!!
Merry Christmas Mary, Rick and clan, and to all the faithful readers of this wonderful blog! What would we do without it? Like so many, I am so happy to see an email from Mary. Thank you again, Mary for all you do for all of us. We wish you a blessed day, and may the New Year bring new joys and happiness to you. God bless each and everyone of you, the readers, and Mary and Rick. Our wind has finally died down from what it has been for three days. We have a Christmas service at our church this morning.
Wishing you and Rick and wonderful and peaceful Christmas!
A very Merry Christmas to you and hubby too! Love your posts, keep them coming!
Merry Christmas!
I agree with Vicki Ibarras comments too. Why can’t we celebrate Christmas 365 days each year. Be kind, be loving, be good to one another, and be as Jesus would want us to be. Merry Christmas to everyone. Thank you Mary for sharing your life of quilting and animals with all of us on your blog. It’s such a fun connection with ‘friends’ all over the world. Mary, did you make it to church last night? There’s warmer days ahead.
Have a blessed day everyone. Jeanne from Loveland, Co.
Merry Christmas, Mary to you and yours! Enjoy! Stay warm!
Merry Christmas…….
Merry Christmas to you as well! I’m hoping the weather clears for you soon!
Merry Christmas !
Merry Christmas, Mary! May the snow and cold abate and the manger be filled with love and animals for many years to come.
Karen in MD
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, Mary! Thank you for the manger picture. Love you and all the animals!
Merry Christmas from the CA desert, where it’s sunny and warm. Thank you for your blog all year long and sharing the beautiful and inspirational reader quilts, as well as the news and stories from your life.
Love the manger scene. The reason for the season. It’s cold here this morning but going up to the mid twenties today. I’ll take it. No snow here yet and the rest of the week looks clear and warming up to fifties by the end of the week! How strange is that? We’re staying home today, my husband isn’t feeling great and doesn’t want to spread anything to our kids. Our daughter Amity and her fiance are getting married this coming weekend! I pray he’s better by then and that I haven’t gotten whatever it is. We will have our Christmas with both families later in January. Merry Christmas to you, Mary and to Rick. And Merry Christmas to your readers all over the world! Jan in MA
Merry Christmas from NE Oregon! Our yard has a quarter inch of ice all over. Funny to listen when our dog crunches through it. I hope everyone has a peaceful and joy filled day.
Merry Christmas to Mary & Rick and all her readers. Thank you, Mary, for your picture of the manger and it’s reminder that, while we may be by ourselves this Christmas due to the weather, we are not alone, for God is with us.
Merry Christmas!
Have a merry and blessed Christmas everyone!
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Merry Christmas 🎄
Merry Christmas to everyone! Peace to all in this holy season.
Merry Christmas to everyone from new Zealand! Boxing day morning here and a nice day, enjoy your day and relax! My love to you all, best wishes from Sandy
Merry Christmas Mary, hope your animals are snug in the barn. Its bitterly cold here in middle TN. We opened our home to a friend who has been without electricity for 1.5 days. Her home hit 30 inside. Power outages are on-going. We are enjoying the company, doing some puzzles and eating lots of goodies.
Kim – 30 degrees is way to cold to stay there – thank you for taking her in.
Merry Christmas to you and Rick!
Kind of late to the party, but I also wish Mary and her many followers the happiest of the Christmas season…from snowy and cold Brainerd Mn 🙂
Beautiful manger picture!
Merry Christmas to all!
Bonnie, in Oregon
Merry Christmas from Highland Meadows Lavender.
Shirley from Oregon
Mary, I look forward to your manger photo each year. It’s another reminder of what we’re celebrating. May the warm feelings from the manger fill your hearts today and all the days ahead. Merry Christmas!
A Very Merry Christmas. God Bless
From Texas
We had an awesome Christmas! Our nephew from Columbus called yesterday to ask if he could bring his friend from church and her foster child. Of course! They came and the foster ended up being a beautiful 18 month old boy. We pulled out the grand kids toys ( they are 21,20, 19, and 18 now) and had a truly wonderful day. The foster mom received the call on Thursday that she had 2 hours to get ready for him. She is awesome and we were happy to share Christmas and that beautiful little boy. 🎄👼🏻
What a wonderful loving heart from the foster Mom as well as you! I am glad that young boy had the Christmas he had with you.
Thanks, Vicki. I liked what you said above, too. We all need to take a step back and reach out with love. When I taught school, I had my 10th graders practice saying please and thank you at home, in stores, at school or wherever they went for one week. They were amazed at the positive responses. One kid I remember told about getting a bigger ice cream cone each time she used please and thank
you😀. We loved having that little boy with us!
Merry Christmas and best wishes for a blessed & happy 2023.