Remember when it was cold in the Northeast last weekend? Yeah, shocking but true it is still — at least according to the calendar — winter here, yet we have all been made so soft by the mild temperatures of the past couple of months that when Mother Nature actually acted normally we all started…
All is quiet on the northern front. Which really is as it should be this time of year. Jen and Kim did the mighty herd-wide cria weigh-in yesterday at the Arena and though their backs weren’t feeling so great by the end of the day, our scale just confirmed what we already suspected: no one…
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…
Well it’s not supposed to be! Welcome to the infamous January thaw. After 12+ hours of steady rain here, we are dealing with a problem that we normally don’t encounter until March. With the ground frozen, all of that water has had fewer places to go and drain off, meaning that it’ found its way…
The photo at left was one I took late last week after Cadenza’s newborn son had dried off and was starting to look more presentable to the outside world. We’ll be gradually weaning him off of the cria coat and the dog sweater beneath it, with the entire feed group in the warm room (we…
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…
