Monday, April 28, 2014

Warm Weather Work (Slug Shoes)

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Today brought the first real warm weather of the season, by which I mean I'm pretty sure it was over 64 degrees fahrenheit. In any case ...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

New Pasture (No More Monkeys)

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A couple of weeks ago, during a short stretch of good weather, Homero and the Unofficial Farmhand (hereinafter U.F., also known as Phil, my ...
Monday, April 21, 2014

What's Wrong With These Pictures?

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The pear tree is in full bloom. The sun is out and the temperature is near sixty degrees. This tree ought to be crawling with bees, but...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

A Day in Cheese Season (Okay, Half a Day)

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A day during cheese season actually begins in the evening, when I make the decision whether or not to separate the baby goats from their mot...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

The Goat Who Wouldn't Kid (When to Butt Out)

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Iris, above, is the first goat I bought when I moved here. I was hurting for goats; I couldn't wait. Goats, as far as I was concerne...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

It Rained a Murder

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The weather has all of us in a funk. It simply will not stop raining for more than an hour or two. Yesterday I saw the sun and ran and did ...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

State of the Farm (Spring Equinox)

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When two feet of snow melts, it leaves a lot of water. For more than a week, there was a tiny running stream going out the driveway and i...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

New Frontier in Goat Care (Disbudding)

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Polly's buckling, the survivor of the twins, is growing incredibly fast because he is getting all of Polly's milk. I didn't...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

No More Hay

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We are out of hay. We still have a need for hay - it will be another month before it dries out enough that I can put the animals out on the ...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Buck Up (Doe Down)

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Yesterday morning, I sent Rowan out to feed the animals because my knee had slipped out of joint as I tried to put on my boots. There w...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Snowstorm 2014 (Photos)

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The children have been complaining about the lack of snow this winter since, oh, mid-December. Boy are they are happy today! It's bee...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Signs of Spring

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This picture was taken last week, at my local park by the river. Chunks of ice were floating merrily along downstream, but this bush - w...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Function Over Form

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the calf keeping me company Recently, I made a fairly large purchase: a dozen cattle panels. I have a long term goal of eventually ha...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Cold Casulties

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We have no snow on the ground - this picture is from a few years ago - but the past week has been intensely cold. Cold for this part of...
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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Imbolc - Repost

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Welcome February 2nd, a day of many names in many traditions! In what is probably the very oldest and most universal tradition of all -...
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