Thank you, Lupine

Not to be maudlin, but we have another obituary for the record.  This time for one of our all-time favorite ewes, Lupine.  (She is in the header photo above, the white one with her eyes closed).  She and Fuzzy Lumpkin were born the same year, both daughters of our Border Leicester ram Mr. Big.  We [...]

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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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More babies

I had a really tough day with my eye, but we did have another set of triplets from Mae (who wasn’t supposed to be bred this year she is so old!) and then we had an adventure with Lupine, one of our crossbred white ewes.  John had to pull her 17 pound ewe (that may [...]

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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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