Saturday, March 13, 2010
Steph!
If you still read this, I would LOVE to get back in touch with you! Hope all is well with you and your family!!! Time has FLOWN by!
Chickens!
Philip is back on his poultry kick! haha. That man certainly has a soft spot for birds! He wants to get chicks. I think it's a good idea. Both layers and meat birds would be good. Also ducks. I want some ducklings SO bad! Wonder if it's all the Easter propaganda sinking the idea in our heads. The boys love chickens though, so it would be fun.
Our milk buyer, David Major, who makes cheese just up the road has a sheep farm, and the ewes are lambing right now. They are SO adorable! Philip and the boys have gone up a few times just to see the sheep. They love it!
I think we have Spring fever!! haha!!
Our milk buyer, David Major, who makes cheese just up the road has a sheep farm, and the ewes are lambing right now. They are SO adorable! Philip and the boys have gone up a few times just to see the sheep. They love it!
I think we have Spring fever!! haha!!
Friday, March 5, 2010
Whoa! It's been nearly a year!!
I have been totally slacking on the entries, I know.
Life has been chaotic to say the least. Without divulging into a frenzy of details, I will give you the nutshell version. In August we sold the herd, to a guy in NY. The cows came down with lungworm, most of them died and now we are fighting a massive legal battle for both our money he owes us for the animals, as well as to prove that he neglected them. That is the EXTREMELY short and not so personal version.
We kept 11 milkers... Peace, Pansy, Katie, Half, Louise, Leah, Oriole, Paisley, Phila, Raye and Ruby. We are selling all of our milk to 2 local cheesemakers. Things are pretty tight, and we are trying to focus on figuring out our future.
Garrett and Sawyer continue to get bigger and smarter by the day. They never cease to amaze me. Garrett is in first grade now, and has lost his 2 bottom teeth. He is reading above level, and can write neater than some adult guys I know! Haha!! Sawyer is 4 now, and going to the Village Early Learning Center. He LOVES it. He is my little social butterfly!
I myself, went back to school. I started in January at the Community College of Vermont (CCV) in Brattleboro. I am currently taking 3 classes... Dimensions of work, Intro to Human Services, and English Composition. I am aiming at an associates degree for now.
So that is my very breif update. I will try to be better about updating regularly!
Life has been chaotic to say the least. Without divulging into a frenzy of details, I will give you the nutshell version. In August we sold the herd, to a guy in NY. The cows came down with lungworm, most of them died and now we are fighting a massive legal battle for both our money he owes us for the animals, as well as to prove that he neglected them. That is the EXTREMELY short and not so personal version.
We kept 11 milkers... Peace, Pansy, Katie, Half, Louise, Leah, Oriole, Paisley, Phila, Raye and Ruby. We are selling all of our milk to 2 local cheesemakers. Things are pretty tight, and we are trying to focus on figuring out our future.
Garrett and Sawyer continue to get bigger and smarter by the day. They never cease to amaze me. Garrett is in first grade now, and has lost his 2 bottom teeth. He is reading above level, and can write neater than some adult guys I know! Haha!! Sawyer is 4 now, and going to the Village Early Learning Center. He LOVES it. He is my little social butterfly!
I myself, went back to school. I started in January at the Community College of Vermont (CCV) in Brattleboro. I am currently taking 3 classes... Dimensions of work, Intro to Human Services, and English Composition. I am aiming at an associates degree for now.
So that is my very breif update. I will try to be better about updating regularly!
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