On what felt like the first warm day of the year, our cow Daisy birthed out a beautiful heifer in the afternoon sunshine. I know it wasn’t actually the first warm day of the year, but it was the day that seemed to herald a run of warm days, the beginning of the end of winter. In fact, exactly one week prior, an ice storm had smacked the province around quite heartily and we had spent the day huddled without…
I actually don’t know if I have it in me to properly describe the last few days. It might take me a bit of time to break it all up into it’s component parts and try to explain each piece in a sensible way. I’ll certainly try as I feel like I’ve learned more than my brain can handle within a very short space of time so perhaps writing it down will make sense of it all! But here is…
Yesterday, as I was just beginning to make dinner, there was a knock at the door. The dog was going crazy, the kids were running around me as I opened the door a crack to stop Winnie bolting out and crashing into whomever was on the other side in a blur white floof and massive paws. Our neighbour was there smiling at me and announced he had our cows with him! In a moment any worry or stress I’d had…