At Alice and Henry’s farm, it is time to mate the sows. Henry even bought a home pregnancy test for them—it is inserted into the vagina and simply beeps, with maddeningly little explanation, if it judges them to have conceived.
A March sky pinned with stars— purple, almost, and a blue mist in the wheat stubble. Under the laburnum, we waited— the chains of leaf, its cascades of gold flower gone, and the whole tree drooping
After the pigs and lambs and rabbits were sold off at auction they bought a 30 dollar goat and named it Snowflake Brownie and then a second one called Cookie Dough the third Brandon but the names melded into dubbing them the Healing Goats brought to the farm to keep
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