When people hear my blog name, their first reaction is always, "Well that's an interesting name. Where'd that come from??...

  I've come full circle. I'm ready to have a dairy animal again. Granted, there are a few obstacles in the way, like the fact that ...

   This is Ellie. She was one of the two cows that I milked for a year while interning. She and I had a very healthy love/hate relationshi...

   February 22nd, 2013. Today, one year ago. I usually don't remember what happened on any specific day, a year ago, but the 22nd still...

Poppy. My Jersey calf from 2008!  One thing I've learned over these few years of being in the farming world is that if you want to ...

 I just found this organization about an hour ago and I'm positively THRILLED to see it! This is a group of folks actively taking do...

   I will forever regret not buying this cow...   She went up for sale back in July, for the steal of a price of only $700 (and the ...

  I started this post by embedding the video on here. But then realized that - uh - some of you might not appreciate that. Hehe. But I fou...

I found this Youtube on mobstocking cattle and really  liked it. Yes, it's almost 17 minutes long, and you're probably thinking t...

We went 3 1/2 months with no rain, and boy howdy did it get dry around here. The ground cracked open in ugly ribbons. The dust made clouds...

Summer and Ruby... The pair are rarely far from each other.

I know, I know, I already posted pictures of Ruby a couple weeks ago. But it never hurts to see more pictures of a pretty bovine, right?? ...

Life seems really weird right now. I went from the craziest July I've ever experienced where livestock is concerned, to a creepily cal...

On Sunday morning I noticed that my heifer, Ruby, has gotten two funny stripes on her forehead... They almost look like eyebrows. Hehehe. ...

That's an ear tag, in that picture below. You see that kind in cattle. Made of tough rubber, and large in size, you write a permanent ...

Photo credit goes to Emily Nicolle Photography.

For the record, it's really hard to get decent pictures of an animal when they're in a barn. I'll have to post better pictures...

It has come to my attention that I need to resurface over here and do some writing! Yes, I disappeared for the week; I'm sorry. It...

My sister over at Life Through My Lens  captured this shot of Ellie in her paddock yesterday evening.  I think it's a lovely pictu...

I despair of ever selling my goats. I'm down to four left: Trigun, Summer, Lyric, and Tamarack. I sold Jupiter last week but she w...