Gorgeous Gorge

A Birthday Over the Hill

Spring Flower Bouquet secreted into the milking parlor pit was a birthday morning surprise!

The Daffodils, my birth flower, opened their sunny heads this morning!

Lydia cooked and baked a lovely brunch of popovers and scrambled eggs with the first spring chive.

A day with a spring table, a warm fire, games, chai, meringes, cards, and Finnish birthday cake with lemon curd, strawberries, and topped with freshly bloomed violets. Perfection!

Rye Lamb

March 21st, Marshal announced there was a surprise in the barnyard. Three lambs and one ewe! Our first ewe to lamb of the season had triplets. One of her little ewe lambs has Rye Neck. First she was not using her back legs. I rubbed her dry and supported her body while she sucked hungrily first colostrum from her calm and attentive mama. She found her legs later that morning, but had a hanging head. Twins were born to another ewe, as I was checking on Rye. Five babies in one morning! Two days later, Rye was cold and still. She had the will to live though. I brought her in by the fire, and she had just enough life to swallow warm raw milk with a nutritional conconcoction to cure or kill her. Her little mouth warmed, and she was standing again in a few hours. Mama ewe did not completely reject her, but doesn't stand to let her nurse much. She gets to hang wth mom and siblings, and is eager for warm milk from the cow afer milking morning and evening. She is doing well now, and enjoyed running around in the sunshine today!

First Day of Spring

March 17 Remembering Patrick and Being Irish

Lake Road with Grandma

February Day of Love

 

February Snow Across the Land

The skis, boots, and poles came out.  We skied locally in the white flocked evergreen forests a few times.

Heart Hearth and Home

The dairy tankers could not come due to road closures, so we filled our jars and buckets at the neighboring dairy and made yogurt today.

Instant Pot 24 hour cultured yogurt!  I just enjoyed a bowl three weeks later.

A neighborly friend gifted us sweet mandarins from her greenhouse citrus trees!

Tirza at 14 is blind and deaf, but still acts like a sweet puppy when there are treats!

Family Celebration of Love

French Beignets with soft custard centers of farm fresh egg and honey batter.  Maple sugar dusted with raspberry puree on the side.

Lydia made sure the Red Letter day on the calendar did not escape us.

Gabe, the chicken man, brushed out his curls!