Went to the doctors for a checkup–first time in three years–and came away with a clean bill of health. Not bad for a 62-year-old, I figure. But gosh, seems like only yesterday I was 61. Still, if you’re middle-aged and considering farming, you should think hard about that. It took a year for my tennis […]
Tags:aging
We had our 850-foot-long driveway plowed yesterday for the third time this season and we’ll probably be having it done again this afternoon to deal with the snow system that’s been parked over us since Saturday. Forecasters are calling for a foot of snow or more from this particular storm–a few inches each day–which starts […]
It had to happen eventually. Yesterday we killed two of our three-year-old ewes and sent them off to the butcher. It was time to thin the herd. I realized this season, and especially after adding five more sheep–our future breeders–to the flock, that we have more animals than we can feed. We’ll be lucky to […]
Tags:butchering·sheep
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