Thoughts of Spring (part 1)

Well,it's snowing once again! we are looking at another foot of snow which means we could get a dusting - a foot and a half!!! With all this snow on the ground It is hard to get ready for all the tasks spring brings to a farm. We must get ready. With the change of the winter season comes all the run off of melting snow and all the removal of "fertilizer" I'm thinking the gardens and berry bushes will like it, but moving it is not that fun. We are a big enough farm that there is a lot to move but not big enough as of yet to get a tractor to move it all, so Gabe will be getting his spring workout and tune up for the rest of the years projects. Enough with the poop talk!
I am in charge of managing the lambing season, which should begin in April. We should have all 6 ewes bred this year and that should bring anywhere from 9-15 lambs! Last year we had 6 with 4 being rams and 2 being ewes. SO maybe this year will be the year of the ewe! lets hope. But before the ewes can lamb we need some nice dry warm weather so that we can shear them! We lost a lot of wool last year due to wet weather and tons of mud! I am hoping we get their fleeces off before the "March Mud Madness" arrives! So we can have some nice clean fleeces to bring to the mill. This is just the beginning of the list! I'm praying it's a good year for all the farmers.