Sep 03
Life…New Life…I witnessed nine miracles born today…I never cease to be surprised at the feelings and wonders this stirs in my heart. What a wonderful Mother BOO is! She just knows what to do…and does everything correctly! Cleaning, feeding, caring for her puppies… She also wanted me with her ! But once I was there …
Sep 02
At 9:00 AM the Stork landed at Maple Grove Farm with NINE healthy, strong, beautiful, English Shepherd Puppies!!! It took most of the day for the stork to unload the puppies! BOO and Puppies are doing fine! I suspect BOO, puppies, and myself will sleep well tonight! I know that stork is tired! We have …
Aug 26
Today we worked sheep…Once a week or so as needed…Kay and I gather the sheep and pen them in the sheep pens and check them for worms and also their feet and anything else that might need attention. Today Dan and Buddy came down and they took a lesson in herding . I like to …
Aug 14
I was in the house and heard a lamb (we only have one) and yes I pretty much know my ewes by their voice…It was stressed and I knew something was wrong… Drover and I went to see what we needed to do…to help. The rest of the dogs were out and had to stay …
Jul 15
Well we are preparing for the NC ES Gathering !!! We do some things all year long with the Gathering in mind…(one of my big things is I keep things in order and put up..you know that stuff you would normally pile in a corner etc) 🙂 This year we have been working on the …
Jul 09
I have been slow to post photos…(my bad!) I promise to do better! Here are the 5 puppies born to Abilene and Drover June 16th, 2015 !!! Enjoy! We had some winking, and yawning going on today! Lots of it is hot ! All the puppies are spoken for! We had 3 black and tan …
Jun 02
We have been busy! Drover and I went to a AHBA herding trial in Berryville VA Memorial Day weekend. We earned a HTAD Level III Title on Geese! We worked hard (and I was nervous! ) So we did not title in anything else …But had some respectable scores considering I was so nervous! This …
May 21
This afternoon Kay sold 14 head of sheep to a fellow in Midland NC! 9 lambs and 5 Churrio Ewes…. I had to take the ewes to the barn for sorting (out of the big 7 acre field) and across land that is unfenced. This is not a problem for me. I put them right …
May 16
Refuses to stay on the farm! Never mind she has a very large world here! NOT GOOD ENOUGH for her Henness! She goes to the neighbors and stays for days! Lets just say they do not appreciate her Henness living in their beautiful manicured yard complete with tons of pine straw! (er all that scratching) …
May 10
Drover: I have gathered and sorted sheep…gathered moved sheep, re sorted…penned sheep…and did a lot of driving of sheep… If that was not enough I tended the flock in the unfenced field as well…then gathered and drove them back to the field! And lets not forget the sorting of the lambs from their Mothers! One …
