You Know it's Spring When...

You know Spring is in the air on the Homestead when…

…mud is beginning to form every where.

…it takes two days to remove the lasagna layers of bedding from the stales.

…the does are getting heavy with kids and kits and finding it much harder to move around.

…you check livestock vaccinations & realize it is that time of year again.

…and of course a new snow storm passes through –getting its last winter blow in.

…and the hobby farm becomes more farm than hobby.

And the most important symbol of Spring…when the first mating pair of robins is spotted on the homestead.

Soon the air will loose its nip, tiny buds will begin to form on the fruit trees and the crocuses will burst forth though the last fallen snow with persistence. And we all are reminded that the cycle continues.

From winters dark bleak days will burst forth new life and new growth. The days are lengthening; the sun is chasing the gray clouds from the sky and soon new life will be transforming the homestead into a blur of activity.

The rest of winter will soon be ore’ and the hustle of spring sprung upon us. Oh what joy awaits us on the Homestead. But even then with weary bones & aching muscles, you know you are exactly where you want to be-Homesteading.

The Greenhorn Homesteader