Life on the Farm

We're in a three bedroom cottage. It's heated by a wood stove in the living room, so it gets pretty cold at night unless Rich wakes up to put another log or two on! The temperatures have been below freezing most nights, with mostly sunny days in the high teens. 15C is about 60F, which seems to be the high most days. We seem to get up with the sun and go to bed a few hours after it goes down.



The kids love going around with Mike to feed the animals each morning.


There are highland cattle, black angus beef cattle, lots of merino sheep, 2 other sheep like the kind in the movie Babe, 5 sheep dogs, including a Rhodesian ridgeback, and 5 shetland ponies.

The boys saw a baby angus calf being born last week. Each day there are new calves, both the angus and the highland cattle. Many of the sheep are pregnant, but they won't have their babies until October.

New baby highland calf, 2 days old


The dogs are showing off


Farmer Richard feeds the cows