One thing about farming, the animals keep getting hungry, again. Thankfully, on a grass farm, most of the animals only need a fresh pasture every now and then. Except for the pigs. Pigs eat grass but they can’t live on it, so our pigs receive a home mixed grain feed that includes milo, oats, sunflower [...]
On October 3rd Sue and I went on an adventure. We had been invited to participate in the Indian Summer Days event hosted by Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park. I brought Rowena (my spinning wheel) and Sue came along to look cute. During the day people from Sulphur Springs wandered around enjoying the good [...]
When It Pours It Floods
These past few days have been full of excitement. First, two of our sows farrowed. For those of you that have never owned or had much to do with pigs ‘farrowed’ means she had her piglets. All told, there are 16 new piglets. This time of the year in Texas is not ideal for baby [...]
Sue
I have tried numerous times to get a good picture of our bottle lamb, Sue. When she was born in April, she got separated from her mom and with a cold front coming in Ellen decided it was safer to take her in. There have been bottle lambs on the farm before but Sue is [...]
Haying Time
It’s haying time and my first chance to see how it’s done. First, I got to help replace broken teeth on the hay rake, making me feel like something of a mechanic. The emphasis there would be on “something”. I thought of a child’s joy in doing or helping with “big people work” as I [...]
