At least that’s how I’m choosing to interpret the arrival of close to a foot of snow last night. The last time we were due to trim nails herd-wide back in January it snowed several inches as well. Seems to me the evidence is pretty clear. Either that or the good Mother is just poking…
With our kids’ Thursday afternoon ski program scheduled to start up this week, what could have been a rather scattered day filled with multiple commutes in two different directions, instead got fairly straightforward when Mother Nature intervened and gave us our first snow day of 2012. There I was, shortly after 6AM, refreshing the school…
We just got home last night after 12 marvelous days away in the BVI sailing with the Young clan. Other than a slightly finicky onboard generator, the time afloat was essentially flawless. I still have Kelsey Young’s good natured (and slightly naughty in the best sense of the word) cackle burned into my auditory memory…
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…
The Arena and Main Barn are slowly but surely starting to empty out as we begin the process of sending roughly half of the herd out to pastures away from the buildings themselves. From my office window in fact I can see our rather small group of yearling males happily munching on almost 10″ of…
Herd health in May is lovely. We figured out many years ago that as long as we had each member of the herd restrained for shearing we could also do the bimonthly toenail trim as well as any dewormers and vaccines that were required. This works even better as we have two shearing stations but…
