Easter, Navajo Churro lambs

Quiet week at the cafe and still busy cleaning and painting and rearranging for the upcoming season. Eggs in the incubator are hatching, although not as many as I had hoped. A few cafe visitors for Easter breakfast and Paul and Maria brought the kids over for Easter eggs and pancakes and to see the baby chicks. Home to the farm and on Monday, Paul and Maria and the grandchildren came to visit the lambs and the piggies. Oma and Opa also came for a visit. Lots of excitement in Wilno re upcoming visit of the Polish Prime Minister next week. We are to host a lunch for the visiting media.

Took Dad for a drive to the salesbarn on Tuesday as I had to go to Reiche's to pay an abbatoir bill and then on to M&R Feeds to pick up our chicks and fifteen new laying hens. Lots of squabbling going on in the henhouse when the new girls arrived. Our goose is sitting on eggs and we have four new lambs, Aretha had twins and Anastasia had one single and lastly, Brownie had one tiny black baby. The sheep are thrilled to be out in the fields, so green and so much room to roam about. Let Alfie out also and he was lamblike in his leaping and cavorting.

A beautiful Spring day

Saturday March 28 was warm and sunny and my brothers and two nephews arrived to do some fencing in the big field behind the house. They brought along a four wheeler to carry the supplies and roared off into the distance. Tom and Henning unloaded a big round bale of second cut hay and brought it into the barn for the new lambs. Meanwhile, Bama still loves to come inside for a little snooze and a bottle in the rocking chair. Pretty soon he will be too big for that and besides, I have to go back to Wilno next week so he'll be at Henning's mercy....and there won't be any rocking and bottles by the woodstove!!