Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Get your hats and mittens boys and girls…
Because it’s herd health time (cue streamers, fireworks, and maybe even dancing girls jumping out of cakes)! I can barely contain my enthusiasm. There are some months that herd health day isn’t really that bad of a chore. Especially like last month…when I managed to slink/slither/skulk my way out of participating at all. In my…
Back on the farm…
A belated Happy New Year to all! Geez, when we left New England on 12/26 we just barely beat the first really big storm of the winter season by about 5 hours, though looking out my window right now you’d never know it. The ground has only patches of snow and in most places the…
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
Santa Claus in this case being the wifi signal I’ve been able to glum onto from Marina Cay here in the BVI. Yippee!!! Sorry Steve Jobs but the Iphone just really isn’t that great for checking or writing email no matter how many little catchy videos you guys produce claiming otherwise. It’s nice to be…
Experiencing technical difficulties
Allright, so I’m not really complaining. I am after all writing this from on board a 50′ catamaran in the BVI. My problem is that my fancy schmancy new USB modem for my laptop got plugged in last night when we first arrived and then promptly seemed to die. While I’m not too bad at…
Merry Christmas!
I hope that everyone who celebrates this holiday has a wonderful time with family and friends, whether your celebrations are big and raucous, small peaceful and reverent, or somewhere in between. For those of you of different faiths: may the proverbial Chinese restaurants and movie theaters be as empty as they are rumored to be,…
T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house…
…there was chaos. I will grant that the current holiday excess is nothing compared to what it used to be. It seems to be a law of modern American parenthood that the smaller the child, the more out-of-control their parents and (especially) their grandparents behave on December 25th. Particularly with regards to anything made of…