Weekend Adventures:
- Bert and I spent eleven hours in the pickup on Friday while my mom hung out with Wacey. We took our good mare down to New Mexico to one of the other divisions to turn out with some of the ranch's brood mares and a stud in the hopes that she'll have a baby next spring. I'm obsessed with baby horses, so this is pretty exciting!!!!
- In light of being gone all day yesterday and the fact that it snowed again, we spent Saturday hanging out, and Bert's parents came down to give Wacey his Easter basket.
- Last night we hunkered down on the couch to watch the last Hunger Games. It wasn't exactly a grand cinematic masterpiece, but it didn't disappoint! I always feel like things are lost in translation when they make movies into books though--Coin was way more subversive and creepy in the books!
- My mom surprised us with hidden Easter baskets this morning! She'd hidden them while we were gone on Friday and texted me this morning that we had baskets in the house! We've both overdosed on sugar, but it was a pretty sweet surprise!
...See what I did there? - This afternoon, Wacey went on a cranky tear (not enough nap the past couple of days), so I took him on a car ride that turned into a car nap for him while I listened to the Easter sermon from the Antioch church in Waco via their podcast. It was perfect.
Agriculture:
- Lamb is the "Easter meat" for several historical reasons. The first relates to the book of Genesis in the Bible and Abraham's sacrifice of his son. Another is related to the concept of "passover," where during the tenth plague of Egypt, God told the Jews to sacrifice a lamb and paint its blood on the lintels of their doors so that they will be spared a visit from the Angel of Death, who would pass them over. More generally, it was believed that because the lamb is holy, it was the only animal that the Devil couldn't inhabit, and several hundred years ago, the Pope requested whole roasted lam for his dinner, and it's remained the traditional meat of the Vatican Easter dinner ever since.
- Lamb is also the traditional meat of Easter in Greece, where it's roasted whole on a spit.
- In more modern times, it's become acceptable to substitute a figure of a lamb made out of something else, like butter or sugar, for the actual meat on the Easter table, in lieu of ham or another meat (or no meat at all, of course). This year, it was French Dip sandwiches chez moi ;)
On the Ranch:
- We were going to have a branding on Tuesday, but it's too wet! We got big, wet Spring snows twice last week which is great for moisture, not so much for not moisture, which means not so good for a necessarily dry activity like branding. We're also due to get rain on Wednesday, le sigh.
- We have a meeting tomorrow to discuss our Spring breeding/branding schedule. I'm sort of dreading seeing how full everything is going to be, but that's just how we roll. Still, I kind of miss the good old days when "breeding season" was just turning bulls out.
- There are still about 600 calves left to be born on the ranch--April is going to be a calvy month!
On the Home Front:
- We have a walker! Wace still hasn't figured out that it's an actual mode of transportation, or that he can do it somewhere besides between his dad and me, but we're working on it! The next big boy hurdle: the dreaded sippy cup.
- I can't believe it's almost April! I have some home projects I'm really excited about next month--I'm waiting on fabric from Joann's and some gallery wall materials :)
- Need an easy, wonderful, crowd-pleasing weeknight recipe? Look no further.
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