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Feb 01
My Sweet Journey…
Today I needed an extra hand…fast and stock wise…we were putting out round bales of hay for the sheep . They are eating a round bale every other day in this cold weather. The work was harder with the cold weather and blowing falling snow. The sheep are like kids in the candy store in …
Feb 01
JUST THINKING HOW…
I have been in much thought lately about the weather, how on earth did our grandparents cope in cold and hot. for that matter? Gardening…to eat or not…store bought loaf bread and biscuits…farm raised meat and eggs…oh and fresh cows milk… I am sitting in our living room it’s after midnight and we have 13 …
Oct 06
Some Of The Best Work…
That a Stockdog does is only experienced and enjoyed by the owner…Stockdogs (any breed) are not necessarily a super friendly bunch…but more aloof to other dogs and people…(they may be friendly sort of) but let their owner need to go to the field to work stock and their total focus is on the stock and …
Oct 06
A Simple Country Pleasure…Dolly’s Fall Barbecue Supper
My good friend Dolly Hulin invited Les and I to her beautiful home a piece of heaven tucked in-between the mountains in Jackson Creek …last evening. It was a beautiful perfect Fall evening. The birds were singing” O Fall ” all day! There was a slight pleasant breeze cool but not cold with a …
Mar 05
Sweet Grandma (sheep)
Call me a softie, but there is a special relationship between a Shepherdess and her flock. If you would have said those eight original sheep would change how I see the world and the people that live on our precious planet…I would have laughed…but they have changed me…for the better! Sweet Grandma, my last of …
Jul 07
The Symphony, Last Evening …
As Journey and I walked down into the field….the darkness seemed to be magical and to envelop us… it was warm and still… nothing was moving. It felt as if we were approaching the entrance to a large sanctuary . As we entered this other world of utter peace… I looked up, at the nighttime sky, …
Jun 03
WE HAD A GOOD RUN… (10/22/09 to 5/31/24) DROVER
What is there to say about the best dog that ever was? My heart is broken! I have given some thought to this fine dog… and how, why he was mine from the time he and I laid eyes on each other! He was a soft wiggly bundle of furry fun! With the prettiest …
Mar 07
simple country pleasures…peaceful
Sitting in our living room on this grey rainy day makes me feel so peaceful…calm…all is right in my small part of the world…and it is! I watch as my sheep eat the fresh, sweet, green, tender grass…and I wonder…just, how good it must taste to them? It has been 160 days at least …
Jan 09
Why A Shepherdess?
Thursday we had our first Fall lambs born. They came here without any trouble. Somewhere between birthing the first one and the second one the ewe walked off and forgot she had the first one. The first lamb knew who her mama was but the ewe said no way is that mine. So I built a …
Jan 06
Horse Sale!!!!,
As a girl I went everywhere with my Grandma and Grandpa Delk… My sweet Grandpa loved a sale of any kind but a Horse Sale was the best in his eyes…I was right there with him! Grandma would stay home and tell me to not allow him to purchase horses…she was sending the giddy horse …
