Spring Time
We’ve had quite a winter. After a decade of low snow levels and water shortages, it looks as though this year will be a little above normal. Our children have enjoyed the winter. Many times they’ve asked why we are getting so much snow. I had to tell them that this was normal. When I was a kid, we had this much snow all the time (well, if my memory serves correctly, we always had more and had to walk up hill to school everyday too).
Now it seems that winter is finally losing his grip on us. We are starting to see the grass and all of the toys left behind. It is nice to see that with so much snow the ground never froze. This is allowing the snow to melt without a lot of runoff. That will help our crops our tremendously this summer.
The animals had a tough time this spring. It has stayed cold for longer than we’d like. Many calves were born at the end of February, which was much colder than normal. We had a higher mortality rate than we planned. But now that it has warmed up, it is fun to see the calves running around kicking their heels into the air. I believe they are as excited as the rest of us to see spring coming. In fact, this morning I heard robins chirping as the sky was brightening up with the morning sun.