The girls have been up to their ears in animal poop this past week.

L. helped me clean and lay new straw in our chicken coop the other day. It's amazing how much poop 30 chickens can create. And shoveling out the boxes is not so fun when the "glued" straw is half frozen. L.'s glad that we don't have to do this job every day.

And G. has been working at a local farm with a 6-month old heifer she's named Sparkles for her new 4-H project this year. She's been to the farm once a week since early November and really enjoying being around the larger animals and working hard to halter-train Sparkles.

And although G. didn't help clean the chicken coop this week, she did not escape poop patrol. It was just a different kind.