22/06/2023
While everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is celebrating the longest day of the year, Summer Solstice. Here at the ranch we are celebrating a birthday for our special orphan bottle raised finger-sucking sweetest yak calf ever to be born has reached a significant milestone today!
Solstice is now 7 years old, which means a yak doesn't get full adult grown-up status until this age. With her all being grown up, we can't help but wonder if any of our Yaks 101 Tours fans would love to share any special memories about her, and a special bonus if you have photos of your time interacting with her.
Though we don't do tours anymore sadly, we can't help but celebrate the moments when tour guests would come meet the herd when a gangly awkward calf would come running towards them at full speed to suck on their fingers as a method of affection way beyond when she was weaned at a year old.
As musician k.d. lang would say appropriately about today, “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, And you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling. Laugh, oh how we would laugh at anything, and so pretend a never-ending summer fling.”
Miss you Solstice and I hope you know that you were my other favorite yak I helped raise during my time at Yaks Matter.
🎂 🐃 🎈☀️ 🎉
