Our new orphan

There is never a dull moment around here. Sugar (the little filly I adopted) has earned her wings. We let her out in the afternoon after the workers are gone and she follows us around while we do our afternoon chores. The Kabota has become her running partner and she follows us to feed the cows and the sheep. As you can see by the picture, she thinks she should come up the front walk The other new member at the farm is a new little calf that had been abandoned by his mother. When we found him, he was very dehydrated and on the verge of death. He was unable to stand up or even open his eyes. We still had giant baby bottles from the 2 calves we bottle fed last year so I quickly grabbed one and filled it with a bottle of gatorade and some milk replacement that we had for the filly. He finally got strong enough to stand up with Marvin's help and was soon wandering around the barnyard. He is growing like a weed now, but we found that he is blind. He is living in the corral with Sugar and they seem to be getting along well so far. The picture is our friend Kaliko feeding him one of his bottles. Marvin calls his cows and sheep to dinner each night with the honk of the Kabota. They run like the dickens to get their hay. The other morning the calves didn't come with their moms so we had to go looking for them. They were all in the corner together so we led them over to breakfast. Fall is definitely in the air. You can feel the difference and the trees and plants are showing that slight bit of yellow. I like the summer growing season but am kind of looking forward to those long evenings in front of the fire. Summer evenings are nice too but when it gets dark at 9:00, we don't get to bed until 11:30. Up at 5:00 makes a very short night. I heard a great quote the other day: Ask 10 gardeners a questions and you will get 11 answers. Have a great weekend!