Milkweed & Teasel

I brought my two ewes expecting triplets in to the orchard so I could keep an eye on them through the storms. At 5am this morning, in 50mph ...

Grumpy lambed last night. She had one great big ram lamb that got a bit stuck, but with a little pull from me and a lot of dramatic shouting...

Another two sets of twins have arrived at Milkweed. Gregor and L817 have lambed. Gregor's lambing was the worst case scenario. In ever...

Well, two of them anyway: a pair of Dorset x Charolais ewe lambs.  I was worried that they wouldn't be as cute as pure Dorset l...

Mike and I celebrated the first day of spring by watching the solar eclipse. It was a cloudless morning and the eclipse was perfect viewed t...

In spite of the squally winter storms and frozen water pipes, this is a keeper's (and wife's) favourite time of year. Shoot season i...

Look at what came in the post today! A very talented blog reader, who is a friend of the family and lives in Spain, painted this pictu...