Oct 19
Daily Drover and I put our small Katahdin sheep flock out to graze in the morning…Then in the evening before dark usually we gather the sheep up and put them in the arena for the night. This evening ….it smelled like Fall…leaves and that wonderful earthy smell that I can not describe…but is so distinct….It …
Oct 18
All Summer and early Fall, we spent prepairing for the North Carolina English Shepherd Gathering. Fixing fences…Installing Gates…Putting up fence…Digging post holes…Tamping posts into post holes…(by hand with a tamping pole) Hanging Gates…makeing gates swing properly…Installing latches on all the gates…Making pens sturdy…Cleaning up and out the shop and barn…Chopping down brush… You might ask …
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 …
