Granddaughter Emily and her new husband, AJ, pose with Christopher for a family photo following their wedding on a lovely September afternoon.

Great gathering for granddaughter’s wedding

Rancher's Diary: Firewood pile is ready for the winter ahead

September 7 Last week we moved some big bales in our upper stack that was leaning over into the bushes toward the creek. We stacked them on the end of the smaller stack, reconfigured the black plastic covering and put deer mesh around them to keep the deer out. Emily’s wedding was Friday — marrying […] Read more

Later calving was supposed to avoid the snow, but winter just didn't want to give up this year with a heavy snowfall in late March.

Weather didn’t co-operate for calving beef cows

Rancher's Diary: After a short labour, a new great-granddaughter is welcomed into the family

March 22 We’re about to start calving. Andrea put boards over gaps at the bottom of the barn wall where critters have been crawling into the barn —to block their access and stop the wind. There were sheets of ice where water ran into the barn when snow fell off the roof, melted and ran […] Read more