There is one season that Vivaldi did not compose for: mud season. Though here on the actual farm we are doing ok (the only asphalt is in our house’s dooryard/turn-around) the public road, Wheeler Camp, which ends at our sign and the entrance to the farm itself is quickly turning into a series of 6″…
This is the second part of an article which originally appeared in the fall 2006 issue of the Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles newsletter. The post below has been updated, revised, and edited to bring it in line with current practices and show rules. I also changed some wording which I found annoying. The original author will…
It has occurred to me lately that given the time of year it would be good to post something dealing with the topic of show preparation. That is after all, in one form or another, what most of our late winters and early springs have been taken up with for the past eleven years (we…
The Arena, which houses our female production herd at the top of the farm, has been in a state of relative lockdown since last week’s big rains. The downside of having beautiful 20′ wide shed roofs running down both sides of that 200′ long building is that in a winter like 2010/2011 those sheds become…
There was quite honestly not a whole lot going on here the past few days, which after an eventful week of ice storms, downed trees, and the seemingly never-ending herd health “day” was really kind of nice. Friday things were so mellow I even made a double batch of chocolate chip cookies for Max’s fourth…
So what were the odds of us hitting another pot hole and wrecking another tire on our Prius? Pretty slim I would say but we still managed to do it again. On another date night no less. Is our Toyota a prude, passing moral judgement on us? It only took us 15 minutes this time…
