Katie's Journal

We made it to the Buckwheat Festival last night. What I expected to be a quick trip to the store ended up taking all afternoon. So we dropped Sami off at my parent’s on the way home, threw the groceries in the house and hustled through milking. With Ern’s crohn’s disease he has to be […]

I spent most of the morning fuming about this and now I’m just sad at how people act anymore. A little background so this makes some sense. Once upon a time when my FIL ran the farm he raised 40 acres of corn to feed as silage to the cows. To hold this he put […]

We’ve gone ahead and started giving the cows some corn silage in the evenings to supplement their declining pasture. These pictures are rather dark – my cell phone doesn’t do well taking pictures this late – but they’re amusing all the same. Happy eating the first day: Sami posing with her girls: This is the […]

Ern got the first load chopped last night. Getting it into the silo this morning. We still have some adjustments to make on different things, but they’re minor and overall so far so good.

I went and did it. Mr. Buck joined his girls on the 5th, so with any luck the first week of October I’ll have my first litters. Woohoo! I’m always behind. The tub they’re all in is not big enough to be permanent. But I’ve had no luck getting my final colony set up done […]

So I go over to check the buns this morning and out of the corner of my eye I catch some white fur in the hay feeder. Oh, no, I thought. Nest building. Then I thought I saw it move. No way – too early for kits. They’re born hairless anyway. And then I realized… […]

The 5th of September all the bunnies got to become one big happy bunny family. Time was running out fast for me to get them into the colony with time to adjust before the little bunnies started to come. Over the last few days I’ve manages to sneak a few minutes here and there to […]