It is definitely time for an update what we are doing here at Big Bear Ranch,
But to be honest: most days we are so tired from the daily chores, we just want to go to bed and sleep.
So now I am sitting in front of the computer on a sunny day and therefore it will be very short, because I should rather move hay bales from the fields or should get my email out about the next meat delivery on August 21th!
The winter was long and very snowy, so we had to split a lot of fire wood
And shovel tons of snow
We could not look out of our office window anymore, the snow just kept piling up
A cow moose with twins camped for weeks in our haystack and enjoyed the organic hay, but she never asked for the certification
Then with the slow greening up in May all the babies arrived: lambs, piglets, calves, chicken
Some of them had hardly a dry day in their first weeks, it just kept raining
After the last 10 days of hot, dry weather the unusual wet spring with torrential rains just seems like a bad dream.
But the wet ground and the very fast regrowth of the grazed and/or hayed fields proves that it is true: we spent all the months from April until the 1. of August like this:
Even trying to drive on the high spots in the fields did not save you from getting stuck with the Kubota fourwheeler:
Now we have already cut and baled 170 acres for hay and 400 big round bales are ready to be stored in the hay stacks.
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