Randomness – the last instalment
The last of the Randomness Experiment comes your way. It's always the simple things that cause the most angst... don't you find?
WWW – the dust and bellow report
It's cold, it's dusty, it's loud... and you do NOT want to know what's going on with my thighs and what I found up my nose.
Sweet Meat!
I received something pretty groovy in the post a couple of weeks ago... 'Twas a parcel all the way across the seas from a place called Utah. A lovely bloggy friend saw this t-shirt in a store somewhere and thought…
Eye Spy
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with ‘B’… (Remember Bay Lulic aka Bella? Original story here) … I spy with my little eye, a cow who saved a calf from starvation. I spy with my little eye,…
Vignette #2: A Real Good Mother
We have had lots of highlights and a couple of lowlights with our calving this year. We pride ourselves on breeding low-maintenance cattle and excellent mothering cows. But when something happens that leaves a calf unusually vulnerable, we humans try…
Vignette #1: Are You My Mother?
I am calling this a vignette – one of two I will post in the next few hours. You will see why when the second arrives – if I’d tried to jam it all into one, it’d cause some sensory…
The Beauty of our Bella (The Eye of the Beholder)
Something pretty special arrived here at Granite Glen this week. No, I am not referring to the calendars, which have mostly gone off in a cloud of dust to all sorts of amazing places. (More on that in a later…
Reality bites. Or sucks. Or doesn’t.
I really wanted this to be a happy-go-lucky, skippedy-do-dah, my-oh-my kind of post. With all my heart, I wanted that. Cause it’s calving time round Granite Glen. For the past few weeks, red and black baby calves have been popping…
Deadlines and (bovine) bonuses…
This last couple of days have been spent away from Granite Glen – if you have been checking my twitters at all, then you might know the lengths to which I went to avoid packing properly til the last minute.…
Giddy-Up Little Red
The below series of pics are of the little piece of bovine brilliance who we ‘helped’ arrive into the world last week… for want of something better to call him, he is being referred to as Little Red. As you…