It’s a white one!

We did get 3 or 4 inches of snow on Wednesday.  I got to work (my farthest school, 26 miles), began to enjoy the staff holiday breakfast, just to get the word that we were going home.  It was an adventure, but not too bad.  The snow really began to add up late in the [...]

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Water celebration!

There comes a time every autumn when John and I get really grumpy:  the onset of the water carrying time of year.  John was clever and planned ahead for having animals 400 feet up beyond the house and created a “dug” well (upright cement sewer pipes in the ground with crushed stone in the bottom). [...]

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Lambs and kids, almost

Another extraordinary and beautiful morning.  It’s over 40 degrees and warmer in the sun.  As usual, we await out lambs and kids eagerly and this year is no exception.  Two of our dairy does had some mucous drip yesterday, so we got all excited and I did my first really late maternity check last night. [...]

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Persimmon twist

(Warning:  Graphic sheep picture at the end of this post!) It’s always something.  I don’t know who said that, but it’s true, especially if you are dealing with animals.  Monday morning I went out to feed the sheep and one of our crossbred ewes, Persimmon, (who is a tank on 4 legs) had a little [...]

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It’s that time again

The daylight is finally long enough that I am not driving home from work in the dark!  I am feeling the pull to be outside more these days and most afternoons I am actually feeding the ewes and does without the headlamp firmly attached to my hat.  It’s a good thing, too, because lambing and [...]

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Big snow for the new year

When I got out there this morning there was at least a foot of snow on the ground.  It wasn’t too heavy, so shoveling to the gates was easily do-able.  Running a little later than usual, the girls were really hungry and giving me those faces… but the sheep are never quite as expressive as [...]

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Snow day

Yesterday was our first snow day of the school year.  It was a great call as once the snow started it really came down.  And then of course it was followed by torrential, windswept rains.  Totally yucky by the end of the day. I had finally picked up our smoked pork last Friday and we [...]

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Seasonal updates

It’s been awhile since I last posted and I feel like a slacker.  Starting the week before Thanksgiving we have had a crazy schedule which is partly to blame, and holidays always kind of knock me out of sync with my usual daily patterns.  I dried off our doe Elf, as she was having some [...]

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Garden remainders

A truly gorgeous day out today.  It was 40 F when I got up this morning, and although it’s breezy, it’s beautiful.  I wish we didn’t have erranding to do, I would much rather be working outdoors! As I was walking in from chores, my eye was caught by this lovely volunteer that is thriving [...]

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Speaking of goats…

With all this talk about sheep breeding groups, I have left our poor LaMancha dairy goats out of the equation.  Even though we have very flexible fencing and paddock areas, I have been scratching my head over how to get the goats together as a group with a buck, and just let them get down [...]

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