The title kind of says it all! I really can’t believe it’s July 4th already. Hope everyone has had a a great holiday weekend wherever you may be. Here we had Jen’s family over for a midday barbecue of burgers and delicious pork by-products. I confess that having personally trimmed the toe nails of some…
We’ve always been kind of circumspect whenever folks have asked us about our kids and their involvement with the farm. Yes, the kids may have in the past shown flashes of interest in the farm and it’s management but not what one would call a real passion. Something which we were ok with. We felt…
We just spent all of last week with our kids on a small ship touring the Galapagos Islands, bookended by nights in the Ecuadorian cities of Guayaquil and Quito. Quite a trip! There is literally nothing quite like the Galapagos anywhere else in the world. The opportunity to see so many species (many of which…
Just got home late yesterday morning and hit the ground running. The females in the due group apparently were waiting to have their head-midwife nearby before letting the flood gates open as we had two crias born just while we were in route home from Boston, then another came this AM too. It’s good to…
We are taking our boys on a trip to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, leaving later today. It’s a trip that my parents took me on when I was a little bit younger than Max is now and to say it left an impression would be an understatement. The islands and their flora and fauna…
We’re back on the farm now happily dodging the trees as they come at us in the forms of breedings, new births, sick animals, and the ever present soccer or lacrosse practices/games. Safe to say that though we missed our kids terribly while we were away, the adults in this household won’t really be mourning…
