I love this recent photo of me and a volunteer sunflower growing in the middle of one of our vegetable fields. Even though I look older in it than I I like to think of myself as, it makes me smile for several reasons . . . It calls to mind all the times my family teases me about being short. They think they're soooo funny, looking down at me from their pretentious heights and trying to outdo each other with their puns about my view of the world from "down" here. Lol. I preten

Our heifer Betty had her first calf, a little bull, he's a Jersey, Red Angus and Pinzgauer cross with white socks and tail tip. These markings make him stand out from the other calves that are also cute but all solid reddish brown in color. And everything's going great for the mother and son. Well, they think everything's fine while we keep worrying that they've been separated, and that Beauregard needs rescuing! For the first days of a new calf's life, they spend a lot of ti