Seasonal opportunity

The weather is finally behaving more like the calendar date.  Being a lovely cold and clear day yesterday allowed me to get a few end-of-season chores completed.  Early in the day our shearer Emily came to shear the two sheep that are butcher-bound this coming week.  And then I took the opportunity to go down [...]

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Waiting for the Nor’Easter

It’s a waiting game right now.  We are scheduled to have 3-6″ of wet snow come in tonight.  It’s even beginning to cloud up right now.  I am guessing that the pasture won’t look like this tomorrow! We have not seen the end of the breeding season yet and really do not want to take [...]

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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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Traveling ewes

I wish we could *really* drive our ewe flock down the road the half mile to the pasture we use at a neighbor’s place, but I think it might be a little too crazy for me to deal with!  The few cars that use our road as a cut-through frequently get going quite fast, so [...]

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Chicken hut, 101

Roaster chickens are on the schedule to be moved down to the pasture any moment now :*)  The only thing that had put a kink in the works up until now was that we didn’t have a portable shelter put together for them yet.  Life being what it is, we had some of the materials, [...]

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June lamb update

School is over and things seem to be moving forward with the farming.  Our mama ewes and lambs have been separated for over a week now, maybe almost two weeks.  We are very late getting the moms down to the field, as usual, but John was able to mow the perimeter lines for the electric [...]

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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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Leafy contrast

It always happens when I am not looking.  It seems as though just yesterday (or the day before maybe) that this is what the tree line looked like at the bottom of the pasture field at our friend’s house: I went down to the field yesterday to visit our little group there and this is [...]

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Donkey Trek

We have been discombobulated here on the farm, what with the animal nursing and crazy weather.  It’s been an intention of ours to get our guard donkey, Jingle, down to the pasture to be with the rams for quite some time.  Since the rams had to come home because of Kyra’s Boy’s leg issues, we [...]

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