Sorry not to have posted anything in over a week. The past 7 days were taken up mostly by the craziness of our kids’ last week of school and all of the attendant events that surrounded that. With Sam graduating from our beloved Upper Valley Waldorf School as an 8th grader (he moves on to…
Though the wind is at least blowing steadily right now, it is still 90+ degrees in the shade out there in our paddocks. It looks like we’re going to have to ride this out for at least another 48 hours or so too. I can see one group of pastured males from my window making…
Well after all this bluster about big rain storms all we’ve seen so far are lots of overcast skies and roughly 70 degree weather today (cue monsoon/hail storm). Jen went shopping earlier at one of the big-lot stores for our upcoming shearing days, equipping the break room at the Arena with more cookies, brownies, chips, rolls,…
Word from Kimmy back on the farm is that Star Saphire gave birth yesterday morning to a beautiful little beige King of the Ladies girl! That is not only the first cria of the 2011 birth class but also Kinger’s first born for CCNF (his actual first was born a couple of weeks ago at…
Simply tasty. Also the only female of ours (and to our knowledge the first anywhere) being offered bred to this year’s white Futurity Champion… Star Saphire combines the super powerful genetics of Snowmass Royal Rose (himself sired by Hemingway) with that of our multi-Champion female, CCNF Starstruck who is in turn the daughter of…
