“Doing the dairy” in winter: Pt. 2
dairy n. 1. Room or building for keeping milk and cream and making butter, cheese, etc. (Definition from The Concise Oxford Dictionary.) We don’t have a dairy. In our house, a room for keeping...
Monthly Archive: June 2022
“Doing the dairy” in winter: Pt. 1
You won’t be surprised to learn that June says she’s “doing the dairy”. A main difference between doing the dairy in winter compared to the other seasons, is that with milk production down, there...
Numero Uno: Pt. 2
I sit on the downed tree and watch the black steers slip on the creek bottom. They are all bred beef, beef hide, beef hocks. They are a human product like rayon. They are...
Numero Uno: Pt. 1
Violet knows, in whatever way cows know, that she’s ‘Numero Uno’. The most startling evidence of this came a few months ago when another cow in the then herd of four was killed, by...
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