Spring Farming

Today we did a farm tour for a great group of kids from Rouses Point. They made rope, dipped candles, shelled corn, took a horse drawn wagon ride, fed the animals, and had a blacksmithing demonstration. Time flies when you're having fun and before we knew it they had to leave.

On Sunday our donkey, Sooty had a baby boy. All seemed to be going very well. Baby was running around and very healthy. Yesterday I noticed that he was acting a little off. About a month ago another female had a baby that died. She had stolen Sooty's baby but she had no milk! The baby had been about 2 days with little or nothing to eat. We put Sooty and baby in the barn and today he is running around like he should be. Poor little guy...he was lucky we noticed before things got any worse.

We're waiting for some decent haying weather but we need at least 3 days without rain in the forecast. Hopefully we will be about to cut some this week.

Much has happened since I last updated everyone. We have planted our corn, got the garden in, had our sheep sheared, and had a baby miniature donkey born. Violet had the baby girl and she is beautiful!

Breeze is getting big. She is growing about an inch a week. She is getting dark like her mother and father. Looks kinda funny right now as her face and parts of her legs are dark and her body is still light colored.

We are almost done with our field trips for the schools. We had more classes this year than usual. Some of the classes just fed the animals and took a horse drawn wagon ride and had their lunch here. Others did that plus dipped a candle, shelled corn, made rope, got a blacksmithing demo and groomed a draft horse. One group got to see our sheep being sheared.