{"id":3603,"date":"2014-07-31T09:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2014-08-04T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T15:39:20","slug":"summer-vacation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/summer-vacation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"What we did on our summer vacation&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.visited Devon farms, of course.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s none prettier than John and Patsy Forelle&#8217;s &#8220;Folly Farm&#8221; near Pine Planes, New York.\u00a0 You may remember it as the scene of the glamorous closing banquet of the then-new North American Devon Association.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-11-23-16.12.201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-11-23-16.12.201-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2014-11-23 16.12.20\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-11-23-01.57.391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-11-23-01.57.391-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2014-11-23 01.57.39\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140719_92.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140719_92-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20140719_9\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-11-23-16.12.20.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140719_9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140719_9.jpg\" alt=\"20140719_9\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John and I served on the NADA board for several years before finally deciding we could do more for Devon by concentrating on our own herds, and <a title=\"Traditional Devon America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.traditionaldevon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Traditional Devon America<\/em><\/a>, a joint project importing pure English Devon genetics to this country.<\/p>\n<p>John has now sold his herd but retains three heifers, sired by the TDA herd bull, <em>Cutcombe Jaunty<\/em>.\u00a0 And those heifers are now calving.\u00a0 This little bull calf, only a few weeks old, is by another TDA bull, <em>Tillbrook Sunset<\/em>.\u00a0 Right now, along with our South Carolina partners, Bill and Nancy Walker, we&#8217;re trying various breeding options before settling on a plan for the next step in our project.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop:\u00a0 <em>Watson Farm<\/em> at Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.\u00a0 By coincidence, it was the site of the second NADA convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.visited Devon farms, of course.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s none prettier than John and Patsy Forelle&#8217;s &#8220;Folly Farm&#8221; near Pine Planes, New York.\u00a0 You may remember it as the scene of the glamorous closing banquet of the then-new North American Devon Association. \u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; John and I served on the NADA board for several years before finally deciding we could do more for Devon by concentrating on our own herds, and Traditional Devon America, a joint project importing pure English Devon genetics to this country. John has now sold his herd but retains three heifers, sired by the TDA herd bull, Cutcombe Jaunty.\u00a0 And those heifers are now calving.\u00a0 This little bull calf, only a few weeks old, is by another TDA bull, Tillbrook Sunset.\u00a0 Right now, along with our South Carolina partners, Bill and Nancy Walker, we&#8217;re trying various breeding options before settling on a plan for the next step in our project. Next stop:\u00a0 Watson Farm at Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.\u00a0 By coincidence, it was the site of the second NADA convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,98,5,25,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-england","category-forelle","category-jaunty","category-north-american-devon-association","category-traditional-devon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}