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Friday! Dec 17 2004 // 7:10 pm //

cow day!


*COW PHOTOS*

We got a cow and her calf today!

Cows rock!

I’ll post lots of pictures tomorrow.

For now I need to take a shower because I smell like cow.

*shower, shower, shower*

Today we drove a few counties over to Hudson, MI to pick up a beautiful Guernsey cow and her three-week old calf.

The cow came with a name, Fawn. We think we’re going to keep that name. There’s still the issue of a name for the calf. I put up some sheets of paper in the kitchen for people to write ideas. As soon as the votes are in I’ll let you know. Here are some of the choices: Jezebel, Pumpkin, Petunia, Kwansayum, Florida, Bonnie, Adelheid, Smartypants, Junior, TRON, Crumpet, Milky II, Aran, Pulsa, Sorrell, Butter, Pansy, Violet, Harriet, Peanut, Poopers, Dweezil, Clementine, Aceā€¦

Last week we cleaned out the basement of our new (to us) barn (across the street on our newly acquired land) in preparation. The stalls hadn’t been mucked in ten years. We made a lot of jokes about the manure being pure gold after ten years to sit and cure.

We already have several round bales of straw for bedding, but yesterday we picked up a load of square bale hay for feed. We’re looking for a round bale feeder (a huge metal frame that holds the round bales during feeding) but haven’t found one yet.

In other news: the timber frame project was put on hold on account of the cow. Richard and I may do a little work on it next week but we’ll be the only ones here so I’m not sure how far we’ll get. We harvested a few bins of carrots and parsnips yesterday morning. I hope that was the last harvest till spring - it was the kind of windy cold morning that makes you want to sit in front of the fire and drink cocoa.

 

 

 

 



Heather

Monday! Dec 20 2004 // 3:39 pm

Fawn is so pretty, and so is Chrysanthemum! You like it? That’s what you should name the calf. Congrats on the new additions to the farm. I hope you all have udderly wonderful time!

Matthew

Tuesday! Dec 21 2004 // 2:51 pm

If that calf gets named Tron, then I’ll have everything I want. She’ll need a helmet. She’ll need a disc to wear around her neck, also. Put a bell inside it. Clementine, then, while she’s still young and endearing. What about "Calamity?" And I’m glad you given up your rigid stance against coca use. I thought only Peruvian farmers paid their workers partly in coca leaves, but Michigan is always full of surprises.

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