My grandson Anthony has been visiting us regularly since he was a baby; he's in second grade now and has his own life that doesn't always include farm animals (although he does have a cat and a dog) so that when he does come to visit, he's curious about and familiar with the animals who share our life. Spot and Red were of particular interest this year - they're friendly pigs, initiating conversation with us and enjoying their life in the big outdoors. I think it is important for not only Anthony and Crystal, my granddaughter, to know about farm animals and their role in the food chain but also to understand and appreciate them as sentinent beings.
When Anthony was a wee one (years ago) we had a set of triplet lambs who we bottle-fed supplementally - here's Anthony way back then.
Yesterday I moved the tomatoes from indoors to the greenhouse ~ they look great today. This afternoon a package arrived with the blueberries which are now safely bedded down in the east end of the lower garden in their much-amended soil. Ah, hope springs eternal.... Trouble and I went out to the big pasture to check on the ewes this morning; still a few left to lamb and no new ones today....giving me time to cut away some big pine branches that were shading the house and to make a rhubarb custard pie. Good eating!!
When Anthony was a wee one (years ago) we had a set of triplet lambs who we bottle-fed supplementally - here's Anthony way back then.
