For three consecutive nights I woke every two hours to feed two large fires to try and save young peach and plum blossoms from freezing. Temperatures dipped to nineteen degrees on the coldest night, but the flames kept temperatures in the flowering trees to near thirty. Fruit is starting to form, so maybe our vigil was effective. (Video below: March 5)
On January 25, 2018, twins were born, one of which was an ugly black-nosed lamb with mostly brown hair. Fast-forward thirteen months, we see this ugly brown lamb becoming the first wet nurse we’ve ever raised. On February 22, 2019, triplets were born, but one of them evidently imprinted on the ugly sheep with the black nose, and she attached to it. A second set of triplets was born a few days later on February 26. To this day, the “orphan” is growing strong and fast, having stimulated hormones in its adopted mother to make her produce milk.
The ewe is shown here rejecting one of her triplets. (March 26)
The white ewe gave birth to triplets, but (because the mother rejected it?) one of them "imprinted" on a nearby brown sheep and the two struck up a relationship. And as the newborn lamb tried to suckle, evidently some hormones kicked in, and the brown sheep began producing milk. All are healthy as of date. (Video below: March 1)
Winter algae.
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| A bit of radiant heat in the greenhouse saved tomato plants. |
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| All those lambs. Yes, all those lambs. |
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| This from the Syrian cookbook. |
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| This, a foreleg meeting garlic. |
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| And same foreleg a minute before an eight-hour slow cook in the crockpot. The bone must slip from the muscle. |
