Aloha.  It's continued to be a busy week.  We are down to Erin, Daniel, Teo, and I working outside as well as Eva of course.  It's been slower around the farm being at the end of kidding season and all but still it's more difficult to be able to do extra projects outside when your alone outside.  I have to say I enjoy working outside alone.  I can organize and time things out for myself and keep busy.  However, yesterday was a long and more stressful day.  We unfortunately have a lot of fire weed  growing in Golf, one of the milking herd's day pastures, which is a toxic invasive species.  It's not like the fire weed in Alaska that's purple but it's a pretty little yellow flower that looks nice but is a pain in the butt when it's all over our pasture.  We are organic in that we don't use sprays on our pastures or growth hormones and so it was Alice and I's extra job to pull these weeds out.  I certainly don't mind weeding, having to do a lot of gardening with Mom and Dad when I was younger, but between doing all the outside chores, noon feeding, feeding hay, and milking in the afternoon I didn't really have much time to make that much of a dent in the fire weed.  This weed is native to Madagascar and they're not sure how it got introduced to Hawaii but it's become a big problem being very toxic to horses and cattle.  They brought in moths to kill it but you can still see quite a bit of it upcountry, etc.  Hopefully we can weed it out of our pasture ASAP.  Yesterday was almost even more busy when Holly (one of the last 5 on maternity leave) started isolating and pawing, showing signs of labor behavior.  Her udder has also become very full.  I put her in a stall and around 6 pm she started up a lot of baby talk.  I was SURE she was going to give birth that evening but I checked her this morning and she's still holding out!  Maybe by time I get home we'll have some newborns. 

Not a whole lot else is going on.  Easter's coming up and I'm really excited for the holiday because Eva asked me if I'd like to take a couple kids to the Westin Villas in Lahaina for an Easter event.  Sunday is my day off but I was hoping I'd get to be the one to take them.  I'll take lots of pics : )