More farming

Earlier this week, we welcomed a young freemartin Holstein calf named Jill to our farm.  She is a sweetheart and very friendly.  We will bottle feed her for the next few weeks.

So pretty!

Mike finally won the battle to get a goat!  He has wanted a goat for as long as I have known him, but I refused to have one!  A few weeks ago, he felt me getting weak, so he pushed a little more.  We picked up Calvin from some neighbors (also our photographer!) just Friday evening.

Loading him up for the short drive home.

Already up to mischief!

Meeting little Pepin.

Loving Miss Jill.

 Mike and his brother Mark have been in their glory to cut and bale some hay this week!

It was a real family affair with all the kids riding on the hay wagon and the dogs following along.  It also brings back pretty special memories, since these brothers were baling hay the first time I came to visit Mike almost exactly 16 years ago!  My hardworking husband still looks every bit as amazing on that hay rack today as he did then!