But first, here is the picture Lori sent me of Wai. I have not seen him myself so this is all I know. He is staying in a crate pen in her basement so it is hard for her to get a good shot.… Continue Reading “Aunty Anna”
I brought a girl baby cow home by mistake. This was not my intention. But. Ah well. I give in. She is not a Bobby so now she will have a name and join the heifers. This calf is the tamest calf I have ever… Continue Reading “oops”
The dogs have begun to sleep in their winter pods again. In the summer they sprawl out on the veranda floor but in the winter they find their pods and curl up like fossils out of the wind and sleep there. Here is a better… Continue Reading “The Pods”
Hopefully today will be calmer. I still have a couple of teenagers and their baby staying for another week or so. But the Frenchmen and I are hoping for a calmer day today. Something nice and ordinary would do the trick. We got all… Continue Reading “Calmer”
On the Wall. Who is the peahen of them all? Vanity thy name is Geraldine. Now that the peahens are out they all spend a considerable amount of time in the garage looking at themselves in the mirror and they do preen too! Not… Continue Reading “Mirror, Mirror”
Once a week we are looking at this patch of ground – top sown with my special pasture cocktail. Watching the grass grow. I am excited. The pasture not so much. In case you cannot see the whole of the picture in your header,… Continue Reading “Once a week”
I have three entries in my diary – all possible farrowing dates for Poppy. They read. April 04 – Possibly Poppy. April 25 – Possibly Poppy. May 17 – Possibly Poppy. I don’t think it will be April 04. Poppy and all the other… Continue Reading “Possibly Poppy.”
As I was going through my pictures to find one last cow picture for the calendar (which is released by the way, so check it out here). I realised that we had very few good shots of Aunty Del. So I set the dogs… Continue Reading “Dogging Aunty”