A Weekend of Firsts

Phew! This was a very eventful and COLD weekend. Like 10 degrees and below cold.

We got our first calf. Ironically from heifer #1, a first time mother on Saturday.

Poco’s filly started eating hay. She would eat a few bites, and then go suckle. So cute!

Yep. Those are icicles on her little ears. It’s THAT cold!

Kate and family had “no comment” and went on to find a spot to lay down.

As if we weren’t cold enough and covered in 5 inches of snow already, we woke up to a our first deep frost of the year on Sunday morning.

So we moved the cows from the pasture across the river…

…to our backyard.

Then Patrick went to feed the bulls a couple pastures over and the tractor broke down.

So we had to tow it back home. Him driving backwards in the working tractor and me steering the broken down tractor. Not easy. And not my favorite adventure thus far.

We walked into the house just before dark. I put a couple more logs on the fire, wrapped up in fleece head to toe, opened a bottle of Chianti, and enjoyed my couch and the Grammy’s.

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