Oct 02
I don’t know!!!! Lets see…..Herding….Practicing herding….Actually herding sheep everyday! (I think I am a Shepherdess!) Cleaning, Decorating, Hauling off junk, Ordering Books, Answering Emails and Phone Calls, Playing with my last puppy (teaching him what he needed to know) Swinging in a swing with Stetson….Mowing…Spreading Mulch…Cleaning out the shop…Making Lists…. AND WORKING on the ARENA!!!!!! …
Sep 19
We had rain most of the day and all us dogs laid round and slept! It was a good rain and much needed! It should make grass grow! Kay is hoping to have more hay this fall! Long about 4:00PM it stopped raining and the sun peaked out for a while. Kay came out and …
Sep 17
YES!!!! We went camping this weekend!!!! Les, and Kay and Montanna and I (Drover)!!! OH, and Tuff and Goodnight! We took off Friday afternoon for Uwharrie National Forrest! Saturday we went on the trails! Montanna and I went together for a mile! The most she has done in a long time. I could tell Montanna …
Sep 13
Today , as most days we had to move the sheep from the pens to the field where they eat grass. This changes fairly often depending on the size of the grazing area Kay has fenced for the sheep. Yesterday Kay was pretty upset…She had traded a Spring Ram lamb for two Spring Ewe lambs …
Sep 11
Last Saturday a week ago Les, Drover and I attended an AHBA Herding Trial in Chesapeake VA. We left Friday afternoon and the weather was great! Hot but clear and Great! HOT ! But I said that all ready! The camp ground we stayed in closed the gates at dark thirty, but I did not …
Sep 10
I have a new computer! Old one is SLOW! And punny! I have been learning this one! I like it I think! So much has been going on! Thursday night the Old COPPERHEAD from the Spring , that bit 3 of my dogs came back! He got Montanna (bad) and first, then the Pup! Knot …
Aug 27
I grew up and still live in a small community called Jackson Creek , in North Carolina…We are in the Uwharriee Mountain Range…I am told the oldest mountains on the continent! I attended Piney Grove UM Church most of my life…Recently I have not … Today was the fourth Sunday in August. That is all …
Aug 21
Last night I fully expected to see another lamb in the barn this morning! But I was wrong! Moon has shrunk! But there was no more lambs! She was as wide as she is long before the birth! Moon has tons of milk! Baby and Mother are fine! We moved the girls closer to my …
Aug 21
This afternoon Durango (now DEANO) went to Margaret Proctors to further his “Puppy Education”!!! He is a great Farm Dog and has been working quite well with Drover. Plus he has made every step I have fencing and such. Plus he is a great ratter, vermin hunter… But two puppies at the same time the …
Aug 19
I have two Amarillo/Drover puppies still here with me! Stetson is waiting on his new owner a Rancher from Montana to pick him up the first of September. Durango does not as yet have a new home or even a prospect! But he will … Anyway the Maple Grove Farm Four (when there was still …
