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.