From Mordor to Gondor…

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Yes, these are locations found in the “Lord of the Rings” movies…  My THREE boys, LOVE these movies!  (Not-so-much for me, though…I am just not big on movies – especially fantasy types…)  But I DO like naming things!  🙂  So, we have named all the fields on our farm after locations found in these movies.  This way, as long as we tell one another what field we’re working in, we can find each other quickly, if we need to.

In the winter, we keep our cows in a “sacrifice field”.  This is a field that has lots of trees for shelter & is too rough for us to make hay in.  (Years ago, it was covered in pine trees when the farm was leased to grow Christmas trees on.)  When you are “grass-farmers”, the grass is the base of your farm.  Therefore, you don’t want your animals ruining your nicest fields, which is what happens in the winter/spring with snow/thawing/mud.  Since there is no fresh grass for the cows to graze on in the winter here, we feed them our hay – either square bales or round bales that Mike unrolls for them.  We’ve named this “sacrifice field” Mordor, because it is not the prettiest.  The cows LOVE to scratch on all the trees, so most branches are missing on the underparts of the trees, and the ground is pretty “pocky” from their hooves digging into the mud.

We keep the cows in Mordor until the other fields are growing nicely & ready for grazing.  Yesterday was the day to let the cows out to begin full-grazing for 2012.  They were so excited! 🙂

In this pic, I am in the truck, driving out of Mordor, and the cows are following me out…

Next, they are about halfway to their new field, Gondor.  They are getting sidetracked by all the yummy green grass along the way, lol! 🙂

Now I’ve pulled into Rohan and I’m waiting for them to catch up.  Mike and the boys were behind them all to keep them moving.  Can you tell the cows are running?! 🙂

They made it into Gondor.  Look how their heads are all down to EAT… 🙂

WELCOME – 7th Calf 2012

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Here is Snickers with her mama, Buttercup.  What a strong girl she is for only being 4 hours old!!  She walked ALL THE WAY down to the barn next to her mom.  What a wonderful gift of NEW LIFE here on Easter Sunday.  Thank You, Lord!  🙂

HE IS RISEN INDEED!

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Matthew 28:1-7  1After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

 2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”

Mark 16:1-8  1 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”

 4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5 As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.

6 “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’”

8 Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.

John 20:1-9   1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

 3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus’ head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)