Patty Had a Heifer

Monday, June 19, 2023
Hello friends,
              We have a new heifer!  Yea!  Patty had her calf this morning and it’s a girl.  We are so happy!  We looked out into the pasture this morning and we could see Patty and the calf, and then there was Bonnie circling around them.  She thinks every calf is hers.  It was very difficult to  persuade her otherwise.  Vivian was due today, but it hasn’t happened yet, so we are still on calf watch.  It is obviously soon!
             

We got another nice little rain on Saturday night so everything is still growing.  The garden is really happy, the lawn is happy, the pastures are happy, so then the cows are happy.  It has been a particularly prolific year for thistles, however.   They pop up in the pastures with their pretty purple puff ball flowers, but the leaves are all thistley and the cows can’t eat them.  Anything in the pastures that the cows can’t eat, I consider a weed.  You may call crabgrass and clover weeds in your yard, but in the pasture, they are excellent cow food!  Give me more!  Blue grass in the pasture is … meh.  Everything is growing now….