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Archive for July, 2010

Flies

Youngiee on Jul 27th 2010

I hate flies!
That’s all I have to say.
ok, I’ll say more. Poor cows are suffering from the flies out in the field. It’s been hot and humid and that means lots of flies. Now’s the time for biting flies too, so we have face flies, horn flies, manure flies, horse flies, and these weird green [...]

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Milk

Youngiee on Jul 11th 2010

We’ve dried off Popcicle, since she went down to about a quart a day. So now she will have a good three months to rest and build up her stores before calving in early October. The rest should do me good too, as I was developing carpal tunnel from milking. I may need to get [...]

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Spring 2010 Pictures

Youngiee on Jul 3rd 2010

Finally getting to the backlog of pictures from late spring…summer pics coming soon hopefully.

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Grade me, grade me, grade me

Youngiee on Jul 3rd 2010

I know a lot of this is just a varietal/breeding issue, but the Asian nerd in me can’t help cackling with glee at getting 16 Brix on our new crop of raspberries, which is 2 points better than the highest one listed. We also got 16 Brix on our peas, again 2 points better.
Grade: A [...]

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