Ranch Hands February 2014

January finished the "lambing season" where we added 15 lambs - 10 rams & 5 ewes!!!  Big lessons for the ranch crew...  The Vet even came to Us!!

The huge harvests of some items challenge us to find a way to use it all.... Lilikoi (Passion Fruit) made a great wine.  Now we're trying to make 5 gallons of tangerine wine!!

The traditional Hawaiian  "wet season" is when Hawaii's 2 giant volcanoes can get lots of snow....  the NOAA satellite shot on the 29th shows the large snow coverage of Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea....   we could see both from spots on the ranch when the clouds parted on the 31st!!!

January 2014 Ranch Hands

December saw us busy with 6 new lambs, the "wet season" beginning & every plant growing on steroids!!

Our sheep flock has been lambing with 6 new ones last month!  We lost one mom so we started bottle feeding her premature ewe lamb (Mike "volunteered" for the night shift) and the little one has gone from 3 to 17 pounds so far....  the flock is at 20 today with four more pregnant sheep out there!!!

The traditional Hawaiian calendar has two seasons & December we started the "wet season"....  we learned last year that the weather service at the airport gets soooo much less rain than the CGR so we stopped looking at the newspaper...  the latest storm front dumped 3 inches overnight and a foot total for that week...  the plants luv it!!

In December we went and checked all the trees & plants to gauge how they grew in a year...  papaya & tangerines are fruiting, coffee is flowering & all our bamboos are amazing us with their steady progress...  yup, these are all going into the new areas!!