Summer can't be over, not already!! But sadly enough, it is. School starts Monday! Most are happy to ship the kids back to school, but I'm not. I like being home on the farm; whether we're working in the garden, swimming, or just watching the chickens peck or the baby cows nurse. Life on the farm is good.
We've been picking green beans every couple days, hoping to save some green at the grocery store this winter. Tonight is corn night, our first decent sweet corn crop in a few years, we're excited!
Although we had those eight inches of rain in May, it is VERY dry now. We had a decent rain with hail on Aug. 2 but we haven't cut the grass since. Had we not watered the garden, it would be a desert.
Back to the kitchen I go, got beans to blanche!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
1st Customer of the Season
The award goes to "Mr. Pat" with extra credit for arriving on his "Harley"!!
Funny thing is I didn't even hear him and his friend ride up! But Jared came running and screaming "we have customers!!!!!!!!"
Funny thing is I didn't even hear him and his friend ride up! But Jared came running and screaming "we have customers!!!!!!!!"
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Cookie Lives
Short and simple; Cookie almost didn't make it.
He had a rough start, being unable to nurse only because he couldn't find it!! Simple calf!! I swear these things are just suppose to "happen" how God planned, and I guess it would have, had they been running in the prairies of wild west; Cookie would have been some vultures' dinner. However I was not about to let that happen, although I did cry my eyes out Friday morning. I just didn't want our first calf born here on the farm to die without offering some sort of help.
Cookie was born 2 weeks ago today (5/21/08). We started bottle feeding him Thursday night, by Friday morning, we assumed he was going to die! But thanks to modern medical technology and some great neighbors and a good friend who happens to be a Vet., his life was spared.
Come Monday morning, Pete got up at the crack of dawn and tore apart and re-worked our cow shoot, to put the Mama in a the headgate and then showed Cookie - just where the milk was - and he went to town! I thought he was going to suck her dry!! Of course he probably was a little thirsty - being 5 days old and not once nursed on his own.
Just amazing. Prior to that he had sucked every inch of her body and tail and head butted everywhere with no results. Not once did he think to "duck under." So Pete directed Cookie in the right direction once in the morning and once that evening, Cookie now knows where the milk comes from! Thank goodness.
Thursday evening we released Mama & Cookie out with the other mothers/calves. Cookie hasn't lost his way and they seem to be living the perfect life now.
He had a rough start, being unable to nurse only because he couldn't find it!! Simple calf!! I swear these things are just suppose to "happen" how God planned, and I guess it would have, had they been running in the prairies of wild west; Cookie would have been some vultures' dinner. However I was not about to let that happen, although I did cry my eyes out Friday morning. I just didn't want our first calf born here on the farm to die without offering some sort of help.
Cookie was born 2 weeks ago today (5/21/08). We started bottle feeding him Thursday night, by Friday morning, we assumed he was going to die! But thanks to modern medical technology and some great neighbors and a good friend who happens to be a Vet., his life was spared.
Come Monday morning, Pete got up at the crack of dawn and tore apart and re-worked our cow shoot, to put the Mama in a the headgate and then showed Cookie - just where the milk was - and he went to town! I thought he was going to suck her dry!! Of course he probably was a little thirsty - being 5 days old and not once nursed on his own.
Just amazing. Prior to that he had sucked every inch of her body and tail and head butted everywhere with no results. Not once did he think to "duck under." So Pete directed Cookie in the right direction once in the morning and once that evening, Cookie now knows where the milk comes from! Thank goodness.
Thursday evening we released Mama & Cookie out with the other mothers/calves. Cookie hasn't lost his way and they seem to be living the perfect life now.
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