SUMMERTIME?
July 8th, 2009 by gbw. No Comments.
What a strange summer so far. June brought us a new record for rainfall in this area at well over a foot which is making life quite a challenge for all farmers in the area. Vegetable crops are late or lost and mud rules most fields and barnyards. The goats are holding up under the strain of poor weather but lately have been making regular breaks out of the barn in the hopes of finding higher and drier ground. Zues, one of my daughter’s wethers, is particularly fond of jumping out of the barn and wandering over to the unopened pool and nibbling the weeds that have grown out of control. He is a funny fellow when we lead him back to the barn and doesn’t want to walk through the mud to go back in… afterall he had to walk through that mud to get outof the barn. This past weekend was sunny and breezy so the herd went down the hill to browse for the first time in quite a while. The unrelenting rain made it impossible to be outside much less walk around. Despite the dreadful June weather the girls are milking fairly well and all the kids are weaned so we have plenty of milk going into the cheesepot. We have a full schedule of markets and we are hoping July will bring some sunny dry weather so everyone can be in a sunnier mood.