A year ago we had four feet of snow on the ground and temperatures testing record lows. You wouldn’t know it looking out the window. Our biggest snowfall this season occurred a couple of days ago–maybe two inches–and it’s already melted away as the mercury climbs past 50 degrees. El Nino? We’ll take it. According […]
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. […]
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