Winter on the Farm

 Winter at Deer Run Farm: Chickamauga Creek and Pigeon Mountain.

This photograph was made a few days after the great blizzard of March, 1993 covered the land with snow from north Florida to the North Pole. A 36x24-inch canvas print of this scene now hangs above our fireplace.

We had about a foot of snow in most places on our farm, with drifts much deeper in some places. I bottomed out my four-wheel-drive Chevy Blazer in our yard and had to pull it out with the tractor.

During all of this, one of our young heifers, who had been bred prematurely by our neighbors enormous Brahma bull, went into labor with a calf that was far to large for her to deliver. She was suffering greatly. Our veterinarian was able to come in his four-wheel-drive truck and give her an injection the slowed the labor contractions. We and our neighbors Ken and Sara sat up with her most of the night in near-zero weather, sheltered by a ring of large hay bales in our barn. The veterinarian was able to come back the next day with his assistant and do an impromptu C-Section. The heifer survived, but unfortunately, the calf died just before delivery.

But that was life on the farm. A lot of good memories that far outweigh the bad.

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