This is such an odd time of year—we look so forward to it all winter, forgetting how much work it is, and how exhausted we’ll be! Everybody’s gimping around with sore muscles and blisters, and we fall into bed at night. We also freeze, because I’m so tired of dealing with the woodstove and smoke and mess, and DH is completely burned out on firewood, and so we tell ourselves it’s warm enough that we don’t need a fire. Which isn’t quite true.
No new lambs yet, though a couple of the ewes are starting to bag up. The cows are all doing great—the girls have been walking them up the mountain to graze and Maude the other day ran circles around Pearl. I think she’s recovered, though she did end up with a bedsore from laying too long on her flank. It’s clearing up rapidly, though.
I’ll pick salad from the greenhouse today or tomorrow—this is all from lettuce that I allowed to go to seed last year! Let’s hear it for lazy gardeners!
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