Posted by admin | May 2, 2010 | Perspectives |
Farm chores are messier on rainy days. There’s the mud. There’s the wet underbrush you have to run through and the rising creek you wade through while chasing escaped calves back through the hole in the fence. You...
Read MorePosted by admin | May 1, 2010 | Today's Moo |
Old fences of hedge posts and rusted barbed wire mark some of the pasture boundaries here at the farm. We have newer fences, too, some with metal posts and wire that’s maybe a decade old. Others have been repaired and...
Read MorePosted by admin | Apr 30, 2010 | Perspectives |
Sometimes, on busy days in busy weeks, when there’s too much to do and too much bad news, it’s soothing to just pull off the road and take a moment to look at the sky. Focus first on the large, cottony clouds as they...
Read MorePosted by admin | Apr 29, 2010 | Birds and Beasts |
After spending five months together in the womb, the twins are accustomed to togetherness. They stand together, move in tandem, and are rarely more than a foot or two apart when they’re out in the big, wide world....
Read MorePosted by admin | Apr 28, 2010 | Wild Things |
The wild strawberries are in full bloom in the pastures and forest fringes. I’m finding them in places I haven’t noticed them before. The patches I watch each year seem larger, and I’m hopeful that this year...
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