March was actually behaving well…like March today. I suppose if we just closed our eyes and pretended that the snow on the ground had been here since December or January instead of arriving just 5 days ago it wouldn’t be all that different from other years, at least at a glance. Having said that though,…
At least that’s how I’m choosing to interpret the arrival of close to a foot of snow last night. The last time we were due to trim nails herd-wide back in January it snowed several inches as well. Seems to me the evidence is pretty clear. Either that or the good Mother is just poking…
We have almost come to view it as tradition: we go away for a little R&R somewhere and the you-know-what inevitably hits the fan in one form or another back here on the farm. Hey, with a herd this size it’s just par for the course, especially during cold weather (ok, relatively cold weather). Not…
Amazing what a difference in one’s perception 3″ to 4″ of snow can make, no? After coming home from our family trip on the 8th to find the landscape here completely brown and grey, the recent cold and the back to back mini storms of late last week have now put things back, visually at…
Phew! We just got through the craziness that was the Christmas weekend and with the exception of Maxy fighting off a minor viral bug (knocking on wood) he picked up from his cousins, it seems we the humans of CCNF are all unscathed and happy. Wish I could say the same was true at all…
Amidst the happy chaos of the extended Lutz family arriving yesterday to spend Christmas with us here on the farm, we also weaned the eldest members of the 2011 birth class, bringing them down to live in the Main Barn for the next 5 months or so. While psychologically traumatic on the crias themselves in…
