Variety is the spice of life!

We have had rain, snow, and ice three times in the past week.

We have separated the maternity ward girls and their lambs from the rest of the animals.

The nursery a few days ago was up to six lambs.

Melting snow and ice sliding off from our roof came crashing down on my truck - snapping off the radio antenna!

"Snow White", one of our older ewes (she is half St Croix and half Royal Palm) surprised us with our first triplets two days ago - two ewes and a ram.

Unfortunately, she did not move out of the pasture and into the corral and the hayshed. She stood for several hours in the same spot, even when a freezing rain came that night. Unfortunately, the little ram died. "S" brought one of the ewes into the basement and used her hair dryer to dry and warm it. I was sent to the feed store to buy powdered milk. The ewe was returned to her Momma later that day.

We currently have this little girl in the basement for extra care because she was attacked - we think it was by the little donkey. Lost her tail and had its face and head crunched by a large mouth, damaging her left eye. We plan to put her out with her Momma during the day and bring her in the next several freezing nights until she gets a little bigger.

K7 chased this groundhog into the hay shed chicken coop and shot it with his .22 rifle. I don't like groundhogs because they dig big holes in the pasture and the cattle or farmer can come along and break a leg. My attitude is, if I didn't invite it to live on my farm, it shouldn't be here. Same goes for poisonous snakes.

The two big round bales of hay you see on the left are all we have left. I bought them when the price was $45 a bale. The price has now gone up to $75 - $100 per bale. These two will be eaten by the end of next week. It is going to be an expensive March, because the grass doesn't grow until April.

Something is wrong with this picture. K7 shot it, but he left it laying in the coop, and ran off to trumpet practice.

K8 burned our last brush pile in paddock 6, just before a freezing rain arrived.

K8 and I had to deliver hay to the cattle out in paddocks 5 and 6 before nasty weather hit. I kicked all the cows out of the corral with its covered hay shed because I want the Momma sheep and their babies to be comfortable. The cows usually chase the sheep out of the shed. Not this time.