We are really enjoying these 70+° days. Not looking so forward to the rumors of March going out like a lion—I even saw the ‘s’ word in the extended forecast. Oh well, what can you do?
Ridiculously Cute Piglet Pictures
New Piggies
Is Today the Day?
Dixie was leaking colostrum during her breakfast this morning; she’s made a beautiful nest; and the barometric pressure is dropping as a storm (that’s supposed to dump up to 5 inches of rain and finish as snow) is moving in. Sounds like the perfect day for a litter of piglets to me!
For Stewball
The great song
Even though the world changes like cloud formations
all that is fulfilled returns home to the changeless One.
Above all the turning and changing
wider and freer, remains Your Song,
God with the lyre, God with the heart.
Sufferings have not been learned,
loving has not really been learned,
and what separates us in death
has not been unveiled.
But the Great Song above the earth
hallows and celebrates it all.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Br. David Steindl-Rast
Early March Update
Our family’s new schedule has been grueling this week! Bernard going to school has everyone getting up much earlier—except me, but now I don’t get my quiet morning time—and falling into bed at 9 at night.
ED and I are holding down the fort, and getting a lot more done for some reason. Yesterday we moved the sheep into a clean pen for lambing, and today we’ll move Dixie into the old sheep pen in preparation for farrowing (though I prefer to call it ‘pigging’).
The snow peas are up outside the greenhouse, and the arugula and lettuce are up inside the greenhouse. Also up, in pots, are 3 kinds of cabbages, 3 kinds of chard and spinach—the brassicas are close to being ready to pot up.
The weather holds for now, but I fear there will repercussions later—in like a lamb…
A Fine Spring Morning
