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Month: April 2014

Pastures New

Pastures New

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Now that spring has (finally!) arrived we are really in full swing here at the farm.  Life is busy and very, very full.  We are still working on homeschool and keeping up with the boys’ full social schedule (plus Stephen works full time) but we now have the added layer of LOTS of work to do here on the homestead. Now that the snow has fully receded we have moved the laying chickens out of their winter home (our hoop…

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It’s a Boy! Welcoming Blaze.

It’s a Boy! Welcoming Blaze.

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Yesterday really felt like the first day of spring; the air was warm and soft, wrapping around us gently and calling us out into the sunshine.  The perfect, so very perfect, day for a perfectly perfect calf to be born.  Oh yes indeed. We’ve been on nervous high alert for the last two weeks as our beef cow Morag’s due date arrived.  The due date duly came and duly went and we waited…and waited.  Just as the winter has lingered…

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