Talk about a busy week... Gardening... Kidding... Wood splitting... Blind Hog and Acorn have been busy.Goat #494 "Poe" showed up looking like she had kidded, but no kid. It took 2 more days before she showed up with the wee bair...

Weeklong wildfires to the south of the farm- Acorn's throat is none too happy.  Smoke haze thick at times, hills looking right blue.Purple martins beginning to hang around- will need to get the gourds up soon.  Watercres...

Fields are now mowed down- ready for the spring growth surge as Blind Hog and Miss Massey have everything brush hogged nice and level.Acorn has been milking and making skyr.  Baking the sourdough bread.Goose eggs in the incub...

Wellll, Acorn has Blind Hog's sinus crud...  Started as viral, is now bacterial.  Ugh...  No rest for the midwife, and the last big rush of kidding got completed.  Just a few stragglers now to go over the next few w...

Blind Hog has a cold...  Or the flu...  Not sure, but it ain't Covid.  Had a low temp of 100.2°F today, coughing, drainage, overall malaise...  Acorn has a scratchy throat but thinks it is elm pollen......