Fuzzy’s ordeal

Saturday we had a very relaxing day.  Our friend Chris came over and we had some fun time with the lambs, and then just sat and chatted for awhile before going over to Hatchtown Farm‘s ram shearing late in the afternoon.  That was a wonderful time, handling those gorgeous and incredibly large fleeces!  Then we [...]

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Coming down the homestretch

It certainly has been a challenging week.  I have not had a minute to update the last few days.  The jugs continue to be full of spunky new babies.  Yesterday morning Shlomit, our second first time mom, had a single ram lamb (11.5 lbs) and then just walked away from him.  I didn’t see it [...]

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Oven dyeing Sunday

I have been trying to get to some yarn dyeing.  And I have been afraid that if I didn’t get it done before lambing and kidding that it wouldn’t happen.  (And it wouldn’t).  Our son and grandson were out for the day, so I cleared the decks and got to work.  I have been reading [...]

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Easter sunny day!

It was summer all of a sudden today.  I couldn’t believe how beautiful it was.  Chloe and I got into the greenhouse mid-morning and got to work on Fuzzy’s ewe lamb and Norma’s lambs.  It was so warm already that the sheep were quite warm in there and we really needed to get eartags on [...]

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Fuzzy finishes the sheep lineup

Fuzzy’s turn today.  She picked the nicest day of the year so far.  John called me at work to say that she had a ewe lamb and was waiting for more.  Fuzzy had triplets last year as a first-timer, so this year I guess she decided to take it easy.  Her ewe lamb is gorgeous [...]

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