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Sometimes it’s important to turn off for awhile. Leave your phone inside, go for a long walk, take a big deep breath of air, and find the peace inside of you. 🍃🐓
Mondays are always a little easier with fresh blooms, aren’t they? 🌱 I should be finishing up dinner, but Truffles just fell asleep in my lap, so I guess food will have to wait, sorry @g_bigmack 🤷🏼‍♀️🐐 Hope you had a great start to your week!
The king & queen of the shack! 👑🐐 The missing tip of Butternut’s ear will always be a reminder of Buckwheat’s hazing, but now the two of them are best buds and even sleep together and terrorize Truffles like little partners in crime. And then there’s Alfalfa, our gentle giant...constantly nervous, but so so very sweet (...he was supposed to be much much smaller, but I got cat-fished on Craigslist and then fell in love and after that there was no going back). ♥️🐐
🐎 I received some questions about why we group the mares together, how we determine which stud goes in with each group, and why we keep so many horses... So I thought I’d answer that here ☺️. We group the mares based on their purpose (work vs saddle) and their personalities. We think about what kind of personality the mare & stud will produce, it all depends on its end job. We keep the horses for working (feeding hay) and riding as well as the continuation of breeding. Theodore is my favorite stud because he is a Percheron, but the best saddle stud is Neubert - a blue roan (@g_bigmack rides Neubert’s brother, Luke). The studs aren’t necessarily a form of protection for the mares, but he does keep them grouped together. They go out for the summer, and come back in the fall for weaning. We try to start 10 solid saddle horses each year and sell the ones we don’t start to other ranches! PS the little calf seems to be doing well, the mom has taken him in with the other babies, and he is able to move around and nurse! Thank you for all of your well wishes ♥️.
Most of the time I share pretty photos showing all of the beauty around us, but this picture isn’t all that pretty. This calf was hit by a car on Friday night. We’ve been nursing him and doing all that we can to help him recover, but we’re honestly not sure if he’s going to make it. Greg snapped this right after his mom broke though a fence after trying to get him to nurse. It’s easy to always show the pretty, but life isn’t always pretty...most of the time it’s messy, dirty, and really really hard. I want to make sure that along with joy, I share some of the heartache and hardship. Especially in recent light of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. I truly believe happiness comes from our relationship with God, family, and friends...not things or possessions! I hope you take a moment to spend some quality time with someone you love tonight. ♥️
Do you see what I see? 💕🐂👀Now that calving season is over, we’ve been turning out the pairs for the summer. They’ll head up to range for the summer moving from field to field until they make their way alllll the way back to the heart of the ranch. About a 12 mile circle 🐃.
To me, summertime simply means more time to play outside 🌞🐐, and that makes me very very happy. I’m just finishing up a walk with the goats and have some dahlia bulbs from @twigandvine waiting for me to plant! Have a wonderful evening, I hope you get to go outside and take a deep breath of fresh air! 🌱

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Boxwood Avenue is a modern farm blog sharing the journey of a girl relocated from Miu Miu to moo moo. A chicken & quinoa kind of girl, living in a meat and potato kind of world, Chloe Mackintosh writes about balancing life as a hostess, homemaker, and farmgirl.

Located on a cattle ranch in northern California, living in a town with a population of 99, Chloe keeps the company of her chickens, duck, kittens, horses, dog, cows, goats, and husband. 

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