The barn lane – as water feature – small rivulets of running water and large, deep puddles, produced by the recent snow melt and rain
Robins! and green – well much more brown than green – grass!
Tiny daffodil buds – planted long ago by our great, great grandparents – in front of their original house, down by the barn.
Lush, thick, and very green moss – uncovered this weekend as the snow pack slowly receeds into memory
Of all the months of all the year old March has them all beat.
First we suffer from the cold, then we suffer from the heat.
The wind it huffs and puffs around. The rain falls all day,
But then at night it snows and snows and never stops to play.
Next morning out pops the sun and melts the snow, and then
The children all come running out ready for play again.
The east wind takes a look and thinks, “Now I’ll have some fun.”
He picks up the boys hats and says, “Now watch them run.”
He tosses all the kites around away off through the sky
And then he laughs, how he can make the little girls to cry.
Oh yes! Old March is full of fun, he keeps us on the go.
First we are wading through the mud, then plowing through the snow.
So of all the months of all the year, we like old March the best.
He keeps us guessing all the time and never lets us rest.
A beautiful, well-tilled field – many thanks to Jonathan!
Spent the afternoon planting seeds like crazy women – finishing vegetables and dye plants – hard work made so much better by our very fun, little helper.
Planting like crazy trying to beat this – rain, rain, rain and more rain!
Yesterday was moving day on the farm. We moved the rams over on the backside of the hill to their summer paddock.
We moved the ewes and their lambs to the paddock at the bottom of the knoll, that was a zoo.
We moved the yearlings and wethers to a paddock near the new pasture.
Everyone is now very happy…
The old-fashioned iris plants are just beginning to bloom in the garden. We are enjoying them so much! Iris flowers have been one of our favorites since we were little girls. Each bloom is so delicate, so unique.
The chive plants have also started blooming. We will take the opportunity to make chive vinegar this weekend. It’s one of our favorite ingredient for salad dressings.
The lavender plants should begin blooming soon. So it’s time to enjoy the purple in the garden and savor every moment of spring!
While taking the bio-mower pictures, I decided to stalk… errr… follow these two cute little lambs in an attempt to capture the fun that they were having.
Things were going pretty well… I was snapping away, sure that soon I would get the picture that captured the carefree feeling of the afternoon.
Look! Who should suddenly come charging in to the picture frame but Miss Lucy, and she is all like ‘you didn’t tell me that there was a photo shoot going on’. Daimhin (daw+veen) and little Mr. 915 are all of a sudden like ‘Oh, excuse me, your royal highness’.
Oh my gosh, maybe Miss Lucy really does run things around here!
The bio-mowing continues! How about this cute little line-up of busy bio-mowers, fancy footwork and all.
The 2nd Annual Loosing of the Bio-Mowers has begun in the barnyard. We found this to be a great way to provide a little extra grass while the pasture is getting that spring kick-start.
(Of course the time and money saved by not having to mow the barnyard is not bad either.)
The past few weeks there has been a lot of this going on…
and this…
But, things have quieted down quite a bit now that everyone (mama ewes and little lambs) are more comfortable and much more ‘organized’. The lambs are becoming a little more independent and they no longer answer every mama’s “baaaa”. And the ewes are becoming a little less possessive and no longer answer every little lamb’s “maaaa”. All in all things are a lot quieter and a lot more relaxed in the pasture.
