• Pickled Eggs

    For some reason, pickled eggs sound really disgusting to me. I like hard boiled eggs well enough, but when you throw in the whole pickling, it just has a negative connotation. However, it seems like a really great way to preserve excess eggs from the summer’s heavy laying months for use in the winter when…

  • Milk Maidens

    The “new thing” I learned this month was how to milk a cow. And care for the cow before and after milking; how to handle the milk; that raw milk is really delicious- and no, I’m not just saying that! I honestly expected to make some huge transition in order to force myself to get…

  • Caesar

    A few quick photos and then I’m off to bed… I’ve been called up to help with the milking in the morning and I’d hate to nod off in church. He’s a handsome fellow, isn’t he? Didn’t give any fuss coming off the trailer. He just wanted to be near his lady. He literally was…

  • Au Naturale

    So the big conversation around here this week has been what to do about Maybelle. It turns out that she is not pregnant. Ever seen a cow take a pregnancy test? It’s not pretty. I’m very thankful that we ladies just have to collect samples and dip a stick in it. Poor gal had to…

  • Maybelle

    New to the barnyard this week is a Dexter heifer whom we’ve named Maybelle after my daddy’s first cow when he was a boy! It was looking as though we weren’t going to be getting a cow this year as we had hoped. We definitely had decided that a Dexter was the breed of choice…

  • A Farewell Tribute

    I knew it was coming and yet when this morning dawned I still found myself a bit melancholy as I thought about how it was our last day with these hogs. This year’s pigs were entertaining in an entirely different way than last year’s hog. She kept us on edge constantly wondering when she would…