I returned to the Rouse farm after an absence of some weeks – Judy says it was months and she is usually right about things. I was very happy to get back to the farm and I think the Rouse family may have even been happy to see me. Ed looked askew at my video set-up and he smiled when I said I expected I would be even more annoying than before. “Well you didn’t miss many details as it was.”

He hurt his back last weekend and tomorrow morning the vet is coming to open up one of the cows and move her stomach around. Ed explained it to me but I didn’t quite get it. It was a tough winter on the Big Valley Farm and mud season has set in with a vengeance. Judy is as photogenic as ever and I shot about an hour’s worth of video in and out of the dairy barn. Next up for the Bedlam Farm Diary, Vol. 2: The Rouse Farm: the Movie. Definitely the high-def video camera captured the feel and sound of a dairy barn. I am very happy to be back on the farm. And in awe of the work these people do every day.