April has been a ZOO!!!! Baby calves, garden starts,
fencing, morels, and to start things off on April 1st, Savannah got her wisdom teeth removed!
Where to even begin? March ended like a lamb. Savannah got "I" ratings
on her horn solo as well as her two voice solos. She goes to Columbia at the end of the month to perform again at State
competitions. Speaking of horn, found her a used Conn on eBay and when it arrived we all groaned in despair. It
was a "bargain..." Sent it to the "Horn Doctor" and after some discussion, he did a bang up job,
considering what he had to start with. Savannah now has a horn for school and Pep Band and I won't loose sleep over
her "fancy horn" at school...
Calf count is
even- bulls and heifers... Dill, Heidi and Surabhi are heifers; Cork and two more fellas from Hammer and JuJu finish
off. Not a black baby in the mix- all dun or red... JuJu's baby wins "smallest calf award" so far.
He is right petite.
Garden starts need to be planted
but the threat of frost won't be gone until closer to May... We need rain something fierce right now. Ground
is cracking and the grass should be growing faster... Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, herbs, cukes, melons, artichokes
and assorted others await their planting.
Glenn got the upper 40 cleared along the
fenceline and we have begun to run the perimeter fence. Hot work, ticks aplenty! Glenn did get the worst part
done- the manual labor clearing the overgrown brush.
True Grit Aspen joined our Dexter family.
This 15 year old cow and her bull calf, by our Ace, needed a new home. She is great-grandmother to Gertrude, one of
our heifers and has relations to several of our cows. Hoping she will have a few more calves- she looks great for her
age and is in a paddock now with Valinor... That would be a great heifer!
We sold out of
our Kiko-blooded does and kids (Thank you, Mike!) and have even presold the yet unweaned
January goat kids. Pedro and Jose are in with the girls now for Fall kidding.
Click on
the link below to see Savannah's solo from the other night. She did great, the photographer needs to do a better
job- For those of you not on high speed internet, it may take a few minutes to load up...
Until later! Happy April!~
Mary Jane
