Walk this way

Though it hasn’t yet showed up on the calendar, to the knowing eye Spring has arrived here on the farm already. The soaking rain which hit us earlier in the week pretty much wiped out our snow pack so that all of the farm’s Herdsires, show animals, and weaners at the two lower barns are…

Walka, walka, walka

The simple truth is that this blog had existed for 9 months without a Fozzy the Bear reference, something which could not stand. That situation has now been remedied. So yesterday was spent by myself and the Birthday Girl trying to work some of the kinks out of the rookie show animals. Magnanimous for his…

Show Prep 101, Part 1

Show Prep 101, Part 1

It has occurred to me lately that given the time of year it would be good to post something dealing with the topic of show preparation. That is after all, in one form or another, what most of our late winters and early springs have been taken up with for the past eleven years (we…

A quiet weekend

There was quite honestly not a whole lot going on here the past few days, which after an eventful week of ice storms, downed trees, and the seemingly never-ending herd health “day” was really kind of nice. Friday things were so mellow I even made a double batch of chocolate chip cookies for Max’s fourth…