A fencing victory

Saturday some of our good great awesome best friends came up to our place to help us with some fencing.  We’ve been struggling with the fence since we moved to our farm eight months ago – then we were putting in some hotwire as we were moving all of our animals –...

Rick laid an egg

Feeding the cows tonight Clara and I discovered a turtle in the cows pen – inches from the hot-wire.  Clara was sure he was stuck… afraid of getting shocked but afraid of turning back and getting tromped on by those huge cows. Reghan took it up to the house and...

Cows are out… and so is luck

Came home from work and a cow and a few goats were out.  Tristan didn’t think the fence was working so he took the battery in to get it charged.  A leaning cow can do wonders on a fence!  Alex just kept going after that long grass and finally an insulator broke...

Calf, cat, cats

We had finally found a source for dairy heifers and are excited to get some this fall, maybe. But since we’d talked about them they were on our minds. One of our church members is a ‘cowboy’. He works on a ranch and from time to time gets a good deal...

Tornado watch

We’re all hanging out in the closet waiting out the tornado watch tonight.