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Dear Folks: March 20, 1994
Dear Folks,
TRIPLETS!!! Born on the hour of the equinox! What a way to start the lambing season!
The lambs are not due for two more days. I turned Wally in with the girls on October 23, and it’s a 150-day gestation period. The ewes that are in heat when the ram arrives usually pop precisely 150 days later. The others all [...]
Dear Folks: February 20, 1994
Dear Folks,
WOW! It’s PLUS FIFTY out! The snow is still piled high, but it’s MELTING! It’s dripping off the roof and trickling down the driveway and sounding like tiny streams running everywhere. The SUN is shining! We in this valley, who can barely remember a day above zero, who automatically pull on three layers before venturing outside, who thought the [...]
Dear Folks: January 23, 1994
Dear Folks,
Thank heaven for Mount Washington! Any time we begin to feel oppressed by our winter down here in the valley, we can always hear (because the weather reporters are assiduous about reporting to us) what it’s doing at the top of Mount Washington. Then we feel MUCH better.
On Foundation Farm last Monday (Martin Luther King Day all over the [...]
Dear Folks: December 26, 1993
Dear Folks,
Day after Christmas. Six in the evening and the outside temperature is already down to zero. The wind is slamming against the west side of the house, and the radio is warning of a wind-chill factor of -50 degrees. I did my evening chores an hour ago, when it was half-dark. I have never done them so fast. The [...]
Dear Folks: November 21, 1993
Dear Folks,
It’s a classic November day, veering between bright sunshine and snow squalls so thick I can hardly see the barn. We’re at that critical point where the balance between freezing and thawing is shifting definitively toward freezing. Snow dusts the ground, it melts when the sun hits it, but then more falls and it stays. The pond in the [...]
