We got hit pretty hard this year with snow. Right now there is still snow on the ground, and Frank started separating sheep yesterday for lambing. He’s got them all in little pens, about 4-6 per pen. Makes for more work, but it keeps the sheep gentler when he needs to get […]
Today is my last official day off, after having a week at home, I have to go back to work tomorrow. And yes it is Easter today! Happy Easter to all. I’d like to say I had some prolific or philosophical thoughts about Easter this morning, but I don’t. I was […]
We’ve thus far had about 65 lambs. That means all but about 6-7 of our ewes have dropped their adorable little lambies! Ellouise was one of the smaller ewes when we put them all with the rams in the fall, and now she’s holding out on having her lamb(s). We are anxiously […]
Rachael, about 6 months ago, submitted a story to the Small Farmer’s Journal a quarterly publication with information applicable to most farmers and anyone interested in old farm equipment, horses and some of the “greener” ways to farm. It’s a great publication that Frank has been getting for years. (If you stay with […]
I wasn’t sure we’d see the day - but here’s how the story unfolds. You know about Ellouise - our little porch sheep. I’m happy - or maybe sad - to report that she finally made it to being a sheep. I had expected, even suggested to Frank that if she were […]
Yes, the good news is we still have Ellouise. The bad news is Ella still thinks she’s a dog! Frank recently went through a rotation of the rest of the sheep flock into the yard. I thought surely Ella would decide she liked the sheep, they were a lot like her, and […]
This week and last week, we had a couple of neat adventures. We’ve started walking a little more, and of course, now that there’s 3 dogs we’ve got to take all of them on leashes. You won’t believe this, but Ellouise has been walking with us also. We walked this weekend over […]
The saga with Ella (our new nickname for her) continues as she still hasn’t decided that she wants to be a sheep. In fact, for the last couple of weeks, she’s called pitifully whenever anyone walks out of the house, and if you answer her, she comes running up from the barn to follow […]
We’ve got this little lamb - who’s mom decided she wasn’t ready for motherhood - so we’ve adopted her. She’s a little black and white lamb, with this little black dot on the tip of her nose - that from a distance looks like a fly sitting there. I wanted to name her […]
The lambs have started arriving. Frank said the first lambs arrived on Friday 3/28, with the arrival of 10, a set of quadruplets, and 3 sets of twins. There are some really beautiful babies - black and white, brown and white and just plain white. Frank has now converted the middle of […]