You’re sitting at your desk and looking over the most recent lab reports from your farm.

If 2008 wasn’t an interesting year for the forage industry I don’t know what would be.

Through most of the year, Cranberry Creek Dairy appears to be your average dairy farm with a milking parlor, freestall barns, machine shed and feed storage, but come the first hard frost of the year, some of Santa’s many elves descend on the dairy and convert a couple of the farm buildings into Christmas workshops.

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“Emma unwrapped herself from the faded patchwork quilt, picked up the last ornament off the coffee table and went to place it on the tree.

Sometimes I look at the glitter and ostentatious glow of Christmas with a feeling of sorrow.

Editor, Sixty percent of California voters responded to horrific photos of animal abuse and believed the advertisements from major animal rights organizations which showed cruel treatment of our livestock.

I wrote a little Christmas poem to put it in perspective.