A magic number….

….1,000!  While we’ve been occupied the past several days shipping animals to their new homes, hosting visiting firemen, and attending a conference on grass (aren’t you sorry you missed it?), this little blog that barely can, passed the thousand mark in readership.

Since we got started less than two months ago, with an appropriate lack of fanfare, that is gratifying.  To be honest, we don’t know how this counter software counts, or anything else about blogging, so we can’t say if this is just one of my grandchildren visiting 25 times every day to make grandpa feel good, or if there is actually some interest in these meanderings.

In any event, it has strengthened our resolve to blog more reliably.  Ah, but not right now.  We have to go out at first light and bring in five heifers for shipment to a farm north of Baltimore that is getting started in Devon.  It is our largest single shipment so far and caps an exciting year at Thistle Hill.

The quality of our animals has put us on the “Devon map”.  And it’s a tough crowd!