It's a valentines day. We woke this morning in a friends yurt, nestled in the redwoods and near the beautiful smith river, rain was falling, and new fluffy white puppy love greeted us with kisses. Our spring intern (Adam) was taking care of the evening and morning chores, and we returned home in time for the mid-day bottle feeding to see Matte' going into labor. Last year Matte' gave us twin girls "oreo" and "domino." This year however she seemed to be having troubles, over an hour into it and paul figures he must on a short sleeve shirt for a reason. (since he got all of his authentic cowboy shirts, it's really rare to see him wear a t-shirt now days) So with his eye nearly shut and his face in disqust, he reaches in and helps matte' with the birth of a huge buck. I mean this little guy is as big even bigger than some of the other kids that are already six days old. We call him Valentine, all white with a cute grey stripe down his back. And that's not all Matte' then popped out "saint" another buck, a little buck, mostly black with a little white in the middle, (looks much like domino and oreo.) So there we have it, so far triplets (2 girls 1 boy) two sets of twins (all girls) and a new set of twins (boys). Now only loyla is left to give birth for the year- for the goats that is. Everyone is fine, taking to the bottle like it's going out of style and just cute as can be.
We still wait for leek seeds to come in the mail, they are still back-ordered and we are a bit bothered but it will have to be ok. The vast majority of onions are already sown in flats in the green house, along with some herbs and artichokes to replace the ones that melted in the hard winter frosts. Our christmas tree still stands in the leaving room but is not decorated with hearts, pink and red and even a bit of glitter. Boxes of strawberries should be arriving on the porch any day now and we've only gotten one pass with the tiller over two small patches of cover crop. We hope for more sunny dry days to come.
oh, also I posted up a photo gallery on the web, check it out at
http://oceanairfarms.shutterfly.com
and got front page picture and story in our paper Daily Tripilcate the other day,
both are helping bring in 2010 CSA memberships. We already have 7 paid-in-full members that signed up just in the month of Feb. -credit card we're gonna pay you off! yeah!
ps. I got the photos added, so now I publish this post and add that Loyla gave birth to twins, one boy and one girl.
