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"LEISURE" What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as...

Cliff's taking advantage of this lovely day by giving our gates a coat of Ford (tractor) blue. Oldest grandson looks on (he hasn't ...

Cliff and I went to the trouble of buying a steer for Secret when she was small, so she'd have another cow as a friend. Honestly, she n...

Radishes are up! Lettuce is up! And the daughter's attitude is up because she has herself a "new" car. I've been tilling a...

I'll be honest and tell you that I have very little hope that she's bred. She's been with three bulls now, and my past experien...

Yeah, this one . She's sold. But the man conveniently has lots of other heifers in various stages of pregnancy. No thanks. Let me bri...

I know my regular readers have been following the saga of Secret, the heifer that has been so difficult to get pregnant. I hope she "to...

A long-time AOL friend emailed me this morning asking about Libby. Libby's been gone a long time, Jo. You must have missed this entry ....

I certainly hope she got into some hanky-panky while she was away. Her old buddy, Meatloaf the steer, was glad to have her back.

Diane asked, in my comment section the other day, if there was any update on Secret's love life . Actually, no. She's been at Tomm...

We took Secret for a little romantic vacation with a Scottish Highland bull. She's due to come in heat sometime between this coming Wed...

I took this picture Sunday of Secret and Meatloaf. He's standing behind her like that because she was in heat. You long-time readers ...

AOL isn't allowing pictures to be posted on journals. It was for just such misbehavior on their part that I started this blog, and at t...

My Jersey Heifer, Secret, started coming into heat regularly before she was six months old. Ideally, you want a cow to have her first calf ...

Sometimes my heifer, Secret, makes me just scratch my head and wonder, "Why do they do what they do?" That washtub sits out by the...

No, Secret won't be milked until she has a calf, and she'll be at least two years old for that event. However, next month I'll ...

I'm adding this in March of 2010 for all of you who end up here by typing "When to breed a heifer" into Google.  The answer is...

After Cliff and I bought our first place, a small house on twenty acres south of Oak Grove, my parents offered to sell us a milk cow. I...

We bought a Jersey heifer calf last February because I've missed Jerseys ever since I sold my last one, years ago. Secret was born duri...

My mom and all her family knew how to make vegetables fattening... and delicious! Mother put cream on turnips, carrots, and peas; she wasn...