Have you seen this?

There is a new website out called The Farmer's Garden. It's a place where backyard gardener's can place ads too sell their wares. Now, there is nothing listed within a hundred miles of my home, but there might be something for other's of you. This might just be a great asset to many of us in the future.

Storm

Yesterday evening, my husband and I were out in the field, picking up the metal from our last massive burning. Thunder cracked in the not so distance, causing us to look up. A small dark cloud rushed in existence, billowing upward a white mushroom of a cloud. Suddenly the air was thick with electricity, and a streak of several beams of light crossed the blue sky, like a child's finger painting and their version of what the sun raising in the east would look like, opposite of what was truly happening, the sun in it's orange and pink glory setting in the west.

Baseball size hail fell unto the uknowing households. We managed to get away with nothing more than a good drenching that barely soaked below the soil's surface.

garden

in other news, large turned 12 yesterday. And we named the new calf Wenona

No longer a Heifer

Born on July 4th 2009
We are calling her Louma for now. But this year the letter is W.


Mother and daughter

3/4 of the way down her tail, she has a white ring. She is already showing signs of being a handful. Doesn't want to lay around much, and is very happy to wonder away from her mother as fast as her wobbly legs will allow.

Uma is her mother and Lot is her father. Remember Lot?

Yesterday the other heifer, Urth, went running to see the calf. Uma chased her down. It reminded me of sisters fighting over a new toy.



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