A Summery holiday weekend

The day began with heavy fog and clouds, but it has finished up as a gorgeous, sunny afternoon.  I am afraid that it’s the non-stop Fiber Frolic preparation weekend, but we were pleasantly surprised with some unexpected company this afternoon as well. Our friend Jocelyn, of the Salt Bay Treadlers, came up to get some [...]

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Spring has officially sprung

It’s been crunch time at school this past few weeks, and the rain is back again, although we have an almost rain-free Mother’s Day weekend.  On the positive side, things have greened up like crazy, and the nights are not as cold.  I can’t complain, the lambs are growing like weeds and the school year [...]

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More rain

And it’s raining again!  First we don’t get any rain, and now we have a week of it.  But on the positive side, our most recent lambs are doing very well.  I was worried about our newbies.  But we kept them together for a few extra days and let them out yesterday morning.  They seem [...]

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The Waddlies hold out

But the weather is keeping us smiling even though it has been another week of waiting.  We have 3 very pregnant ewes waddling around; HoneyBea and her gigundas lamb BabyBea are doing very well;  and Beezus is doing much better than could have been expected.  We still have her and the two lambs jugged.  The [...]

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Moon by night

I wish I could show you a really cute photo of our lambs.  But alas, they are not here yet.  Fuzzy Lumpkin was due Tuesday, but her record of lambing shows that she always delivers on the 148th day, not on the average of 145 days.  John and I have been out checking on them [...]

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Winter break

It hasn’t felt like much of a winter.  A break from the craziness of work is welcome, however, as shearing is just the beginning of upcoming farm events.  Everything is now focused on getting ready to welcome our lambs and this is the week that I need to be organizing that. In the meantime we [...]

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3 Day weekend and the deep freeze

The snow did some melting on Friday, conveniently creating a sea of ice wherever it melted.  Now we are in the deep freeze.  It was -8 this morning when I went out to do chores, and I put that off until a little after 7 so that I would have daylight.  Brrr.  This is when [...]

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Snow day

We finally are having some weather that looks a lot more like the season.  Snow, and plenty of it, is still falling.  They are promising freezing rain, sleet and ice for tonight.  I hope the powers-that-be at least call a delayed opening for tomorrow… I don’t want another trip to work like the last ice [...]

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AI party and goatie woo-woo photo alert

Yesterday was the big day.  I got home in plenty of time to get things set up in the greenhouse.  Of course, it had to be that the weather decided to get more than seasonal, so the temperatures were in the teens and the wind was pretty brisk.  John and I decided that we should [...]

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And 2012 begins

The first day of the calendar year 2012 was a beautiful and warm one, sunny and in the 40s.  It gave me the opportunity to get some things picked up and cleaned up that we haven’t had a chance to get to.  Whenever we *think* we need to keep a backlog of things like feed [...]

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