Category: Sheep

Sheep Shearing Rain In May…

Grandma use to say “well this is a sheep shearing rain in May!”  I would ask her what that meant… She would say…Every year they sheared the sheep in May…and shortly afterwards there would be a cold rain, and a short cold spell. Well we are experiencing the Sheep Shearing Rain in May! Some folk …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

Drover

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 …

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Trust…Faith…English Shepherds…

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 …

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Spring and Herding…

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 …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

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 …

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A Perfect Walk About…(simple country pleasures)

Elvis

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 …

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Working Sheep and Spring…simple country pleasures…

Three of four Beautiful days this week we have worked sheep at Maple Grove Farm…All the time watching the trees unfurl their green leaves and the bees busy, with the butterflies having a Spring Fling! Not forgetting the birds singing happily and the Red Bud trees budding out in all their beauty!  Lest I forget …

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As a Girl… (Simple Country Pleasures)

Puppies snow

I remember my Grandpa dressed in overall, boots and coat… sitting on the ground…in the sunshine, up against the dairy barn,on a cold day…looking… I wondered at the time why he would sit on the ground! It was cold and made no sense to me… he all ways sat in a chair! And he was …

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Sigh…

Well we had a real hard killing frost last night! it got most everything here. All the flowers…The grasses I grow are still okay…But most likely there will be another frost tonight… The sheep are doing well…Fat and sassy…Loving the cooler weather…So are the dogs…And you know what? I like it too! Good sleeping weather …

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Never a More Glorious , Beautiful Day …

I am very tired…But so content and pleased… First off I want to thank God for all His blessings!  5 of the blessings are Tosha, Roger, Kynsay, Ashlyn and Graham Hunt! Friends that I shall for ever be thankful and grateful for… Then there are the 7 Katahdin Ewes I started with some 5 years …

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