Jul 07
I have been watching the moon the last couple of nights as it grows. The big orange ball as it comes up over the trees…Shrouded in clouds then clear …I love the light it casts on the big field in front of our home. I like to walk out and look round at the farm …
Jun 24
What is happening! Week Two (Days 8-14) DEVELOPMENT OF THE PUPPIES Embryo will be 4 cell at start of week and 64 cell by end of week Embryo enters the uterus CHANGES IN BOO Possible morning sickness CARE OF BOO Continue as with Week One TO DO LIST Make sure Contract is up to date. …
Jun 18
Drover and BOO had a successful tie on June 10th! (at lest I saw this one):-) they had been together off and on for 6 days. We are expecting an awesome litter and will likely be around 8 puppies! This is what is happening inside BOO…and what I am doing for her… Pregnancy Timeline Author: …
May 28
Life has many twists and turns…like a country road…they were all ways built to go by everyone’s house. Then other houses thru the years were built up along the twisting country roads. I smile as I remember my Sweet Mama saying about one such twisting curvy road…”the man that built that road ( Crouse Town …
Apr 24
THE GREAT SHEEP ESCAPE!!! This morning I was looking out over the farm from my bedroom window enjoying the beauty the rain had brought to the farm…All the green…the trees all leafing out…when I saw a sheep in the neighbor’s field. It was green she is white (from all the rain) washed clean for sure…Anyway …
Apr 24
As I write this I laugh at the sheep…and us… The birds were busy singing their songs of praise as the sun came up over Dutchman’s Mountain in Jackson Creek. The sheep bells and occasional bah from a lamb and its Mother were all part of the beautiful Sunday morning. After church Les and I …
Mar 26
Sunshine on my face…that wonderful warmth just out of the wind and yet it is truly cold outside… That nap in the warm sunshine for 30 minutes…Oops! The birds rustling round in the trees before dawn and then the singing! Nothing can compare, sweet and simple beauty for my ears… The bells on the sheep …
Mar 25
Alton J. Delk my Daddy passed away on March 24th, 1990 about 3 AM… I surly do miss him…He changed my life…Though he never knew it… When he passed my reason for doing anything left…There was not one person I wanted to impress… Oh I was all right I just had no drive to achieve…Because …
Mar 21
When I first sat down to write this… it is late evening, the sheep are quietly munching grass, the temperature is in the mid 60’s . We have been very busy preparing for the AHBA Herding Trial … Back in early December… We needed sheep and in large numbers. Our 33 just were not enough! …
