Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
First day of school
After three months of having the boys around, the farm and particularly the house where my office is, is almost eerily quiet. I took Sam and Max to school this morning, having to leave 15 minutes earlier than normal in anticipation of the Irene-related detour we’ll be dealing with for many months ahead in the…
Mommy, how could you let them do that to me?
Jen, Kim, and Sam spent most of yesterday afternoon doing what will most likely be the final cria shearings of 2011. We’ve learned the hard way over the years that if we push that activity much past September 1st around here, the weather can get sketchy at a moment’s notice. No one, after all, wants…
Herd health days, what herd health days?
That was easy and dare I say it even: kind of fun. With a full and experienced crew of 6, including both of our kids, we whipped through the entire herd in just a day and a half. In reality less even as we stopped yesterday around 2PM to take in hay (and in my…
Random thoughts on the 1st of September
We had three boys born on Tuesday and then one little female born yesterday afternoon. That’s kind of a microcosm of our 2011 male/female ratio. Is there some kind of booby prize if by the end of the season we have 40 white male crias on the ground? C’est la vie. Our youngest son’s club…
Trying to make sense of the devastation
Though we made it through Irene here on the farm with nary a flicker of the lights our state, as you have no doubt heard by now, really took it on the chin. The flooding and destruction statewide is said to be as bad or worse than the infamously destructive (I learned yesterday) storm of…
Batten down the hatches
So here we are waiting on a hurricane. Since yesterday we’ve been going around securing anything that’s apt to be a flight risk in 50+ knot winds. The funny thing was that we just spent the last several days hosting my sister and her family who headed back to Cape Cod earlier this morning. While…