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Jan 30
I Lost A Whole Day…
Yesterday…. Time, life, everything ceased to exist for me…Except for ONE thing… LAMBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and EWES Drover and Abilene 🙂 I woke to sound of a Ewe off in the distance with lambs and I knew there was trouble. One it was windy and cold! Two the lambs and the Ewe were sounding stressed. I jumped up …
Jan 30
Biscuits …A Simple Country Pleasure
Well I have been attempting to make biscuits that were decent all my grown life. No success till today! EVER!!!!! I placed a puppy in Texas …Bandit is his name! His Family gave me a Cook Book! I love the book! It has so much history along with great recipes! I cannot tell you all …
Jan 27
Simple Country Pleasures…
Today I fixed a chicken pie…(still trying for Grandma’s perfect pie) not there yet… But I can fix green beans and creamed potatoes like she did! The chicken pie was for the Friendly Neighborhood Club meeting (every 4th Tuesday) We were low in numbers 19 today but had tons of food! All delicious. Pot luck…Piney …
Jan 27
My Sweet Montanna…
I am reminded of a Tom T. Hall song “Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine. Montanna is getting on up in years…(Law it seems like yesterday she was just a puppy) She has become slow and very careful. Cold weather is hard on her old bones. She has a big soft dog bed and …
Jan 25
Simple Country Pleasures…
Watching lambs play in the field! Bounce and run! Tag you are IT! Run! Tag! Now you are it! After the rain and the barn difficulties…Les and I decided to build a temporary shelter in the field for the sheep and lambs. Ashlyn and her friend Lilly came over after church and we had lunch. …
Jan 25
My Abilene…Simply Amazing!!!
Today one of the lambs was cold and not up nursing. I brought him to the house and gave him to Abilene to look after. I put the lamb beside her. She licked and mothered him, and warmed him up. I fixed some caned milk and sugar (all I had) and fed that to him. …
Jan 24
Jugging!
Sometimes a ewe will not accept a lamb…If you catch it early you can jug the ewe and the lamb(s) and use your dog to hold her attention while the lamb(s) nurse! It is a shepherds trick to use the dog. The ewe focuses on the dog as a threat and forgets she does not …
Jan 24
I Know Better!
We are lambing! We have had 8 Ewes to lamb. (I lost the first Churrio Navaho twins) That ewe walked them to death! (I did not realize they would do that!) Then I had a Katahdin ewe with twins and she lost one of them on day 3 it just died. Starting Tuesday of this …
Jan 19
Simple Country Pleasures…
Is there anything more glorious than a cool, bright, sunny, beautiful January Sunday morning? I jumped out of bed to the sound of sheep bells quietly making music in the distance. It was cool but not cold. Threw on my barn clothes. Turned the Shepherds out …and down to the pasture we went! All 6 …
Jan 16
We Have a New Lamb and 2 Beautiful Roos!
So my powers of “knowing which Ewe will lamb” Clearly Do Not Exist! I thought one of my Katahdin ewes was going to lamb last night. So at 2:30 AM I was moving sheep in the dark (well Drover was!) I had the ram in with the ewes and thought better of it! I opened …
