A Wrinkle in the flock force

We are still waiting for the rest of the girls to drop their lambs.  They were obviously marked  early on and then remarked, or everyone would have done their thing already.  It doesn’t mean that we can stop doing our around-the-clock checks, however, because you never know! In one of my recent posts I wrote [...]

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9/11 thoughts

We have not really begun to catch our breath from the onset of the beginning of this school year.  Lots of things have changed for us in a relatively short time.  My job has shifted its focus, and I am now lucky enough to have the same schedule every day, which is quite a novelty, [...]

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Coopworth ewes assert their independence, film at 11!

Another crazy 24 hours here at the Ruit Farm.  Yeesh!  It hasn’t stopped since 3 a.m.  Yesterday I separated the last buckling from his mother, so when I went to bed at 10:30, there was some calling and baabaa-ing and maa-maaing, but I ignored and went to sleep.  Around 2:30 a.m. I began to come [...]

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Wintery days

January seems to be slipping by at incredible speed.  My asthma has been acting up a little bit and I don’t feel as though I am getting quality sleep… not a shock, really, but always a downer.  Between that and the Haiti earthquake and all the snow that has been dumping on us, it’s just [...]

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