Five months ago one of our ewes broke into the orchard where we were keeping our two rams. Here’s the result: a bouncing baby boy. Conceived in August when it was hot and sunny, he came into this world yesterday morning on one of the coldest days of the winter season. Arctic winds howled his […]
The guy who was supposed to deliver our hay this year took a powder and that turned out fine. Since we don’t have a barn or other storage facility, we would have had to put the hay under a tarp. Been there, done that. The last tarp we owned was in tatters after two years. […]
After a December that shattered all records for heat in Upstate New York–by a lot–we finally got a couple of inches of snow to greet the new year. But it quickly turned to a slushy, icy mess that did little to improve the landscape and just made navigating our driveway that much more treacherous. The […]
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