When I was worried that Gnocchi wasn’t getting enough milk from Lucy, I would bring him in a weigh him daily on our kitchen scale. I can’t believe he was ever so tiny!
Once every six weeks or so, Zac brings the donkeys’ into the barn early in the morning to wait for the farrier.
Hoof trimming is not Daisy’s favorite.
Heirlooms from the garden.
Sweet Jack
Another Gnocchi pic.
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Some of our many, many chickens.
Bingley
Happy Cini
Willoughby. The more I look at her, the more I think she looks like Alabama.
Perseus and Lyra, two peas in a pod.
Little Clark, and all the lambs behind him.
Corvus and Canis
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For some reason, when I went out to see the animals this morning, I was especially drawn to our colored animals.
Here’s Bertie, who’s already quite a tall goat, making herself even taller to get some extra browse.
Ursa gives me a look from atop her hay bale, and, unwittingly or otherwise, exactly mimics Roquefort.
Little Sagitta, one of the ewe lambs we bought this spring, is fitting right in. So are Boöetes and Draco, the other ewe and ram lamb who came along with her.
Happy Friday to all of you– we’ve got some exciting plans for the day that I can’t wait to share with you all, so keep an eye out for tomorrow’s blog post!
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It’s absolutely amazing to me how quickly the lambs are growing up (and let’s not even get started on the puppies!).
Diane and Cordelia are nearly as big as their mother, Capri.
And Perseus is just about as big as his mother, Lyra.
And while some of the ewes still graze close by their just-as-tall lambs,
there are plenty of lambs who’ve cut out on their own.
Lindbergh sure isn’t going to be caught hanging around his mother in public.
And Bingley’s not anywhere near her lamb, Alexander. She’s staying cool in the run-in.
But Aldrin runs over to me (or any human, really) as always, licking his lips!
While Cini and Lucy sit back and watch all that growing-up happen, like it does every year.
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Remember how, about three days ago, all the sheep turned up with an orange stripe down their noses? Three days after worming, we rotate the sheep to a new pasture. Not only is the grass greener and lusher in the new pasture, but it’s also been cleaned of sheep parasites by our three cows and two donkeys.
The flock lost no time at all, and went straight to grazing. I know I say this frequently, but turning sheep out onto fresh pasture is such a wonderful feeling.
Lindbergh and Ara
Lewis
Willoughby
Diane and Cordelia
Happy Cini
and Happy Lucy.
Jerry was happy to stick his head over the fence and eat everything that the other animals couldn’t reach. He cleans up our fencelines better than any string trimmer, though, so we don’t mind a bit.
Canis, on the other hand, jumped through the fence in a weak spot, but still wanted to eat pasture grass (don’t worry: after taking this, Zac and I caught him and put him back on the right side of the fence).
The only ones less than happy about having the flock in a new pasture?
Lucky for the sheep, though, the geese don’t get to vote.
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Finch
Wren
Callum
Not-So-Little Indigo
Feenat
Emma wanted to get personal, as usual
It is almost time to harvest our corn. The variety is called– what else?– Golden Bantam.
Sweet Aldrin
Cini
Diane
and Cordelia. I think they might be this year’s prettiest lambs.
Lewis
Perseus, in the foreground, and Boöetes, in the background. The fact that Perseus is about three shades lighter than Boöetes isn’t a trick of the light– it’s that his genes are half Cormo.
Little Gnocchi
Part of their training involves acclimatization. This pup could not care less about the goats he’s sharing the paddock with. That’s a good thing.
Lucy swings by for a visit.
Luna, our Great White Hope, is still doing fine.
Monroe
I tried all day to get a not-totally saturated photo of the July sock club yarn. It was first dyed yellow, then overdyed red, so the yarn appears to be glowing from within. It’s luminous and beautiful, and I think our lucky sock-clubbers will like it!
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Caroline, Charlotte and I drove to Williamsburg for a trunk show at the fabulous Knitting Sisters on Saturday. What a wonderful shop! Everyone was so lovely to us and we had a wonderful time. I love this patriotic display using JMF Yearling.
This afternoon, we all rush to harvest tomatoes in advance of an approaching storm. Aren’t they lovely? We picked 34 pounds of these beauties, all in various stages of near ripeness.
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After a crazy hot weekend and our lack of power the animals are all enjoying the slightly cooler weather (low 90′s are feeling great right now). All of the animals are handling it really well and keeping super cool how ever they can.
Pigs have different to solutions to beating the heat. The mud works really well.
The shade is also a good solution.
Our first sun flower fully opened this morning.
Baby goats were hanging out in the barn but came to see if I had any food.
Our black eyed susan’s are flowering in full force.
Chanticleer is keeping an eye on the entire farm.
Everyone knows to be hanging out in the shade.
Our bees are also keeping super busy with all of the flowering going on.
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This picture reminds me of the back page feature of one of my childhood favorite magazines. Each month featured an extreme close-up of something from nature and you were supposed to guess what it was. Does anyone else remember that magazine?
If you guessed “A Call duck and a chicken co-sitting on a clutch of eggs” you were right!
Zooey (the duck) and SpaghettiOs (the chicken) have been sitting on this nest together for a couple of weeks now.
I got a quick look at the goods and there are both chicken and duck eggs under there. We aren’t holding our breath that these eggs will hatch (we learned our lesson after the Great Geese Egg Disappointment earlier this year) but we sure would love a few more Call ducks around here. Our ducks are like a troop of entertainers, always showing up in unexpected places and lifting our spirits.
Meanwhile, we have a broody bantam hen in the hen house.
And, last but not least, we are still waiting for that great white cow out in the pasture to hatch. Any day now, Luna.
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