Early February happenings

The boys butchered a year-old ram for the freezer. We now have only one ram left before our ewes start dropping this season's baby lambs any day now.

K6 and K7 re-stacked our firewood storage racks. I needed the backyard cleaned up, so we can get a load of topsoil delivered. Mom wants to turn this area into a giant vegetable garden. The dogs chewed on wood scraps while K7 tossed and...

...K6 caught the wood.

We either burned or sold half our firewood this winter. We have more cut and stacked elsewhere around the farm. 

Home school happens most days, unless the weather is good and Dad requires help with a big project  outdoors. 

Music school on Tuesday and Thursday nights

We have been discussing when to wean her calf and start milking Darling twice a day. The answer came this week when some boy left her in the wrong paddock over night separated from her calf. Congratulations boy for answering our big question! We leave three heat lamps on at night to help take the chill off - this one in the dairy shed, one over the milk machine inside the barn, and one over the dog bed in the barn. In spite of the mild winter, it usually gets down below freezing on many nights.

Now that we are getting extra milk, Mom needs to start making cheese!