It's Spring! it's winter. It's Spring! it's winter?

Criminy.  Saturday and Sunday - stiff breeze notwithstanding - were sunny and very conducive to outdoor labor.  Yesterday morning it was snowing.  On my way up the mountain, there was actually ground coverage!  {shudder} 

I made the most of my Saturday - I oozed out of Tai Chi class and went to visit the woman who had bred Sage and Chicky.  We straightened out a missing paperwork issue and had a nice visit.  I came dangerously close to pocketing a couple of 3-week old Nigerian Dwarf kids on the way out.  Then it was constructing the last of the two raised beds I am putting in this year, and I cut the pieces for a cold frame that I want to add at the side of the house - it's perfect: sheltered, a good amount of full, afternoon sun.  If there is any sun, that is.

Then Sage managed to squeeze out UNDER the fence.  Twice.  By that time, my energy level was starting to dip, so I put the garden cart on its side against the section of fence that she'd assailed all day.  I also visited Jasmine, who had given birth to a premature bull calf, five weeks early.  He didn't make it, which is just as well.  She is doing fine, however, so I am glad of that.  Her 'little' Alice, last year's calf, is a lovely heifer with brown and white spots and that doe-like Jersey face.  I will have to remember to take my camera into the barn with me.  I learned that the price of milk (paid to the farmer) has dropped again.  I don't know how small dairy farmers can make it.  My farmer supports two families (well, his wife has to work, too, and it's just his dad as the other 'family', but, still, it's a struggle.) and he always seems to be putting things together with duct tape and baling twine.  It's tough.  We're all keeping watch on the grass by now.  The cows will be happier, he will be happier, and I will be happier because they are all happier.

Kay helped me give both of the goats their follow-up Ivermectin and I got clocked in the eye by Chickie's horn.  Luckily, there is no black eye, but there is an alarming 'floater' every now and then.  I am keeping a close (inner) eye on it - pun intended - in case it doesn't go away or changes, but everything seems to be okay.  This farming business is dangerous!