With such a long time between blogs I've kinda forgotten how to work this thing. Plus I don't really know where to start, there's a lot of news from the last four months. So I just went through my photos, starting from the most recently downloaded. Columbine is always worth talking about and we made a trip out there a couple of weekends ago. We got a first hand look at spring on the farm when we went for a walk and stumbled upon a cow giving birth. 
I'll spare you the more graphic pictures and have just included the one above, which shows little Arthur with his umbilical cord still attached. Arthur, the newest thing on Columbine, got his name from one of the oldest things. While we were there Matt's Dad produced a bible that belonged to his great grandmother. The bible was 170years old! It was a tiny little thing that had suffered a brush with fire at some stage but managed to survive. In the back of the bible she had written the names, dates of birth, and sadly, the deaths of her children. She had recorded the names of ten children. Rob tells me she had 17, but perhaps after five of them had died she decided to stop writing. Anyway, she'd used the name Arthur for two of her sons, and possibly more. So we figured we would stick with the recycling tradition and name the little calf after those wild colonial boys.
I'll spare you the more graphic pictures and have just included the one above, which shows little Arthur with his umbilical cord still attached. Arthur, the newest thing on Columbine, got his name from one of the oldest things. While we were there Matt's Dad produced a bible that belonged to his great grandmother. The bible was 170years old! It was a tiny little thing that had suffered a brush with fire at some stage but managed to survive. In the back of the bible she had written the names, dates of birth, and sadly, the deaths of her children. She had recorded the names of ten children. Rob tells me she had 17, but perhaps after five of them had died she decided to stop writing. Anyway, she'd used the name Arthur for two of her sons, and possibly more. So we figured we would stick with the recycling tradition and name the little calf after those wild colonial boys. 
Ben was pretty taken with the cattle and couldn't stop mooing all weekend. 
He was also pretty keen on Bop and Unnie's swing and just hanging out with the family. 
He was also pretty keen on Bop and Unnie's swing and just hanging out with the family. 
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