Aug 12
The ewes I look after are having a time with soft feet and tenderness because of all the wonderful rain that has been falling daily …The grass is growing wonderfully! The sheep’ s feet have been as well. Good food! Great conditions and they are quiet soft! So yesterday Kay and Kylee fixed up a …
Aug 08
I was a young girl starting out on a career as a General Contractor… I had purchased a lot in Dixieland Acres (Asheboro)…Drew up a house plan…Hired carpenters…and Daddy cleaned the lot off and dug the footings, and I did very well with the house and built many homes through the years… The first carpenters …
Jun 23
Today we sold some of our Spring lambs. The buyer came Sunday and picked out what he wanted… Drover and I went down and sorted them about 6:30 PM…As we finished the buyer drove up in his truck with a trailer. I had him back up to the gate and Drover loaded the lambs! What …
May 22
About 6 AM I woke and the rain was softly falling, it was cool, very overcast and foggy. The birds were enjoying their free baths and singing quite happily about that! So I snuggled down and thought good sleeping weather! Off in the distance I could hear the sheep bells tinkling softly…I smiled and went …
May 04
Wood smoke heavy on the cool crisp breeze tonight. Sheep off in the distance softly speaking to their lambs, and the sheep bells softly tinkling. Owls speaking off in the distance to each other… A fox barking, and the darkness… damp from the moisture from the rain last night. The smell of fresh growing grass …
Apr 05
What an odd blog subject … Is this a religious blog? No…Trust and Faith have nothing to do with religion…but everything to do with how we live our lives and work our dogs… “Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen” from the Bible. Done with the definition! Trust …
Apr 03
As I watched the sun set this evening over the mountains…The trees are leafing out green and beautiful. The sun was shinning golden and breath taking. The air was cool and a bit breezy. But in all a real Springtime evening. The birds were singing. The sheep quietly grazing with their bells tinkling softly on …
Apr 02
Good friends…Beautiful weather…Sheep…Great Herding dogs, a few yard chairs, tea, soda, and Butterfinger candy bar (my current food obsession) and you have the makings of a great Saturday afternoon! We worked the lambs today. Drover does the stock handling for us…and we work our young started dogs on sheep… We have all come a long …
Mar 29
We had a big rain last night…It made the grass pop green! and the trees sing Spring! The birds were busy, the sheep and all washed clean and bright! It was a beautiful blue sky day filled with sunshine and the pleasure of good friends visiting with their dogs… We herded the afternoon away! My …
Mar 26
Yesterday Gerry, Elvis (her Cardigan Corgi) , Drover 27 Katahdin Sheep and I did a “walk about” … The day was as beautiful a Spring day as one could hope for! The sun was shinning brightly, big puffy white clouds billowed about, and it was a bit cool and windy…but perfect… The air was fresh …
