Kenzie Kettenbach 's Rural Roots - Winter Views

This is a close up view of Jemma. She was born on our farm, but she was taken to Calgary for training. Her favorite buddy is Demmy—who is just barely visible in the background (he is too shy to be photographed). Jemma is very interested in my camera, and she is trying to sniff it.

This is our hip roof barn. That means that the roof bends out and down on a slant. This barn still has dirt floors in the front room, but in the back, there is a cement floor that was put in in 1960. One of the doors is carved and engraved. This barn is home to our horses, our calves, our cats, and many, many pigeons. There is a power line running to the barn. The trucks are parked for the winter—they are used to haul our grain: winter wheat, peas and barley.
This is our shop. This is where we fix all of our tractors, combines and equipment. It is also where we store our farm equipment for the winter.
 This is Ferdinand, my 4-H calf. The yellow tag has all kinds of information about him, like who is mother was, when he was born, and his birthweight. The green tag is his 4-H tag—he is calf number 650. I was worried about the rash around his right eye, but we treated it with toothpaste and it is better now.
Ferdinand looks at us from his stall. He only stays in his stall in the winter. In the summer and spring, he has a paddock outside that he is quite fond of. When he is in the pen, his main goal is to get out—he often butts the bars and the door trying to get out to his paddock.
These barn cats dive for the end of a whip. Two of these cats have died since the photo was taken—one was stepped on by a horse and the other was "dogged" by that I mean, killed by a dog. The other two cats survive, Valentino (left) - so named because I had no other valentine on Valentine's Day, and Skitzie (right) who is really shy.

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