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Iron County Fair

We haven’t been posting much because we’ve been getting ready for the Iron County Fair. It’s a four day event that will draw 30,000 people to the carnival, petting zoo, displays, vendors, bull riding, and other rodeo events. We’ve got a booth to sell our cheese– probably the biggest event we’ll do all year. So we’re madly producing and packaging cheese to sell at the fair.

Hopefully we’ll see you there!

Ranch Weather

Tonight

Windy
Windy

Lo 41 °F   

 Wind Advisory Hazardous Weather Outlook Short Term Forecast

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 41. Windy, with a southwest wind 29 to 32 mph decreasing to between 17 and 20 mph.

Winds could gust as high as 46 mph.

Summer Jam: Emilee Ann Hanks

Friday’s Summer Jam ranged from folk to southern rock to Zeppelin covers to death metal to rockabilly.  Here’s one of Saturday’s musicians: Emilee Ann Hanks.  I’m sure the day will be just as diverse.

Summer Jam: Pablo & The Western Bone Cleavers

Rockabilly– this weekend at Summer Jam in Cedar City.  Hope to see you there!

Half a Billion Eggs Recalled

The CNN headline says, “Feed likely source of salmonella in eggs, federal officials say.”  This as the egg recall expands to 550 million eggs from two mega-egg-producers in Iowa, with tainted eggs traced to 23 states and almost 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning.

Kind of makes you wonder what those mega-farmers feed their chickens.  Sustainable Table reports that industrial poultry feeds commonly contain post-slaughter animal wastes, as well as antibiotics– but clearly not enough to eliminate a salmonella infection.

In contrast, when we had laying hens, we fed them a mixture of grains with no animal by-products or medications.  And our chickens got plenty of sunshine and greenery, since they had the run of the yard.

Half a billion infected eggs… sounds to me like a great argument for knowing your local farmer!

Summer Jam: Bottled Monkey

Playing this weekend at Summer Jam in Cedar City, Noon to Midnight Friday & Saturday.  And we’ll be there with our cheese!

Check out Friday’s opening act, folk/rock musician Chas Holingshead, too!

Ranch Weather

Friday

Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 50%
Chance
Tstms
Hi 71 °F
Friday
Night

Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 50%
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Lo 53 °F
Saturday

Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 30%
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Tstms
Hi 67 °F
Saturday
Night

Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 30%
Chance
Tstms
Lo 49 °F

This does not look promising for Summer Jam in the park.

National Weater Service: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Paragonah&state=UT&site=SLC&textField1=37.9383&textField2=-112.648

New baby goat has a name

Kerry’s little girl  has a name.

 

Meet Echo.  We gave her this name because she echos Moms spot. Also she takes her name seriously and echos her spot on both sides.

We will not be naming  Kerry’s little boy because giving him a name would make it harder to sell him                                                                                     (Brigette Adams Photos)

Summer Jam Is This Week – Pass It On!

This Friday and Saturday is Summer Jam, a free rock music event organized by BACA (Bikers Against Child Abuse). It’s held in the park in Cedar City, the same location as Groovefest. Among the performers will be Crippled Stripper (above) and a dozen or so other bands. It sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun!

So why doesn’t anyone know about Summer Jam? The Cedar City website has a link to last year’s event, but nary a mention of the 2010 Summer Jam. And I haven’t been able to find an event web page, either, though I found a MySpace page for last year’s event (many of the bands will be the same, so this is a great resource to hear them). An internet search did turn up this article at IndependentPublishing.com– not exactly one of the major outlets.

When I tell people we’ll be selling cheese at Summer Jam, they all ask me, “What’s Summer Jam? Where is it held?” So far, not one has known of the event’s existence.

Is this a case of poor promotion by the event organizers? Small town politics? Who knows.

I do know that there’s going to be a two-day concert this week– and we’ll be there selling cheese. Pass it on!

Ranch Weather

 

From the National Weather Service

Today

Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 50%
Heavy
Rain
Hi 71 °F
Tonight

Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 50%
Heavy
Rain
Lo 56 °F
Thursday

Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 40%
Chance
Tstms
Hi 72 °F
Thursday
Night

Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 30%
Chance
Tstms
Lo 55 °F
Friday

Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20%
Slight Chc
Tstms
Hi 77 °F
Friday
Night

Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20%
Slight Chc
Tstms
Lo 56 °F

Doesn’t this look like it will be fun?

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Paragonah&state=UT&site=SLC&textField1=37.9383&textField2=-112.648