Springtime on the Farm

The last two weeks have felt like something from an E.B. White book. The weather's been fantastic, and everything is having babies. I've yet to get good pictures of the lambs down the road or Tilly's puppies (3 days old!), but here are a few snips of what it looks like around here lately.

Jesse stole the little girl puppy for about three minutes. We're excited for Saturday when we're puppy sitting all day and we can spend more time with them.

Jesse and Sarah were craving chocolate chip cookies the other night, and I kinda might have told him we had everything for them. Jesse started making the cookies, only to discover we didn't have butter. So he used shortening. Then we realized we didn't have brown sugar, so in went granulated sugar and treacle. THEN we didn't have vanilla. A teaspoon of Marsala--that's about the same, right? No chocolate chips, so he found half a chocolate bar and threw it in. This, by the way, is the man who measures with precision when cooking. He wasn't happy. However, the cookies turned out to be lovely!

We've been out in the yard a lot the past few nights playing catch. It's been absolutely perfect weather for it. That and our hamburgers and watermelon tonight almost gave us enough of an America fix.

It's rhubarb time!!! England is much more pro-rhubarb than the states. It's a flavor of everything here--candy, yogurt--you name it. I'm cool with that.

I think these sheep are happy to be home. And I'm glad they aren't the mutton stew we thought they might have been.

Baby cow friend.

We said goodbye to our dear Sister Richie a few weeks ago. This was our last dinner together. This isn't us actually having dinner...this is before...

More puppy pictures to come!