They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Saturday was the day we butchered and wrapped one of our katahdin rams. We started out by enjoying the hangar steak, the heart and part of the liver for breakfast. Stirfried with mushrooms and onions. Topped with havarti. That will stick to your ribs. And some of our ribs need more sticking than others. We… Continue reading Butchering a Ram
Busy runaround day, last Thursday. Seppi, Daddy and Winnie started out with a run to the dump to drop off trash. We managed to rub the sidewall of the tire up against something and rip a flap in it. We will need to change that this coming week. Seppi helped Daddy build a prop for… Continue reading Thursday
Trying to Nurse https://youtu.be/tBsVoJogYQY Ten minutes later after mixing up a bottle… https://youtube.com/shorts/MZuRF0xswKk?feature=share
Meet Darla the Dexter! Full video coming soon.
It is that time of year again. Spring is intermittently springing. It is February. Time to prune our trees for Summer. We started with Raspberries. Those should have been pruned in the fall, before the leaves dropped, when we could still have figured out which canes had fruited and which had not. We did the… Continue reading Pruning 2026: Part 1
We are trying a new garden strategy this year. We are going for staggered plantings of a lot of our favorites, particularly the brassicas. We have had great success with growing them, thus far, but not great success with harvesting and using them on time. When you have 12 heads of cabbage all coming ripe… Continue reading Seed Starting 2026: Part 1
Iris is continuing to delay. She and her calf appear to be in no hurry. Her vulva is quite floppy (how's that for a sentence you never expected to read in a family blog!?) and there has been a little bit of mucus. She was a little slow getting up this morning for feeding, but… Continue reading Maternity Farm
Still waiting.
