Hey y’all, it’s Megan, and this video is one of them “little bit of this and that and the other” kind of farm days—except it’s all for the cows. I started out in the kitchen working my way through all this wonderful fresh milk. I scraped that thick cream right off the top (yes, with my little $2 ladle—no cream separator needed when God separates it for me), then made homemade butter and a batch of chocolate ice cream. Fresh milk just does something special to ice cream—you can’t beat it. I use melted chocolate chips instead of cocoa, because it makes it like chocolate chunk ice cream with little pieces all through it, and it’s about the best thing since sliced bread. After that, it was back to farm work: fertilizing pastures, grinding feed, and trying to get manure hauled and spread before a chance of rain. We talked pasture management, giving our own ground a break by using the neighbor’s pasture again, and why I don’t want cows on that early green-up until it’s at least ankle deep. And because it’s real life out here, we had a little excitement—Andy got in a hurry, left a gate open, and the cows decided to go on an adventure. Thank goodness they’re bucket-trained, because farm days don’t always go as planned, and cows will keep you on your toes.