~ The Sheepy Lady ~

Sheep waiting to go out

2011-06-22T09:11:00.001-07:00

2011-06-22T08:19:00.001-07:00

I put the sheep in the barn every night so the coyotes don't eat a lamb as a midnight snack!

2011-06-22T08:16:00.001-07:00

Well it is summer and the sheep are all sheared and their wool is growing long already !

Lambs lambs

2011-03-29T07:23:00.000-07:00

Lots of baby lambs!

2011-03-26T06:25:00.001-07:00

I wish I could send pictures to my blog with my iPhone.

2011-03-25T14:54:00.001-07:00

I waited till spring to get lambs and it still cold.

working and working

2010-11-07T14:26:00.000-08:00

hard to believe how fast the days go!
I have put the ewes in with the rams for April babies. WIth the time fall back the days seem shorter!

slowly getting the back room done

2010-09-15T09:39:00.001-07:00

I have been mudding the back room there were two new walls in there - that needed to be smoothed out.. But I have nevr done it before and I found it pretty hard....I primed it and painted it the first coat - it is a dark blue and needs a second coat..

I also started looking for firewood to heat the house this winter- I had someone I bought wood from last year - however when I asked for more this spring - he told me he was busy!! LOL SO I called him a few night ago and I have not heard from him so I started looking for more wood on Craigs list. I found someone - and I need to talk to him and get the wood out here.... He says it is mostly ash.. I am going to have to stack the wood to be sure he doesnt short me a cord or two...Then suddenly I realized I could stack it in the barn,,,,, LOL - I had built a wood shed but found out it needs to be 3 time larger! so I was going to have to stack it out side... I really dislike fire wood under snow. even with a tarp it is horrible! so I am going to put the wood in the barn stacked nicely and use the shed as a garden shed!!! I can put in the fountains and the big pots during the winter.. YOu dare not keep any of those out side as they will crack!

2010-09-12T06:34:00.000-07:00

Here are my two border collies enjoying the kidde pool. When I first got them - they didn't like water at all. Now they are in the pool all the time. They were 10 months and 18 months when I brought home the boys.

Gosh is it fall All Ready?

2010-09-10T15:29:00.000-07:00

The weather gets me into the winter mode. I have to get so many things done before it gets really cold out side. All my plants need to come in - however I want to paint the room - but I have to mud an area - my middle son put a door in the room and said the younger son can mud it LOL !!! Like that was going to happen! If doesn't look good - no one is going to stay in there and visit with me over Christmas!

2010-09-07T19:48:00.000-07:00

Busy putting in a couple of posts for some gates. I tried to get all the gates painted this summer but I didn't finish.. Maybe next year?
I have been selling the just shorn fleeces on ebay and etsy - I have sold over 12 -- I am selling the whole fleece not breaking them up into bits. I rinsed all the sheep before I sheared them so the fleeces are wonderful! Clean ! Bright!

November 1 is the breeding date for my ewes

2010-09-06T05:20:00.000-07:00

Because I work so much during the school year I finally figured out to make it simple... I am going to have my lambing season during spring break! This way I can shear them and lamb them and have time to do it !!! The lambies will be one month later in the spring and have a bit of a better start!

2010-08-30T05:28:00.000-07:00

Hi = I had a great summer - it went so fast!!

I finished shearing - this time I hosed off the sheep in groups to wash out the dirt in the wool, this summer was wet to start and very dry at the end - so every one was dirty dirty!!

I bought a new ram from Koeppels and he looks like he has good feet and legs and of course he has a nice fleece.

I am coming up for air - summer

2010-06-17T18:10:00.000-07:00

I got busy last year working two jobs sometimes 15 hour work days..
Here it is summer again and I find out pass word to post something on this..

Had a nice lambing - All moms were good most had twins.

Oh NO WHat Happened to Summer!

2009-08-28T08:57:00.000-07:00

Summer is almost over and I don't feel that summer even made it here! I did start a flock of Bluefaced Leicester sheep. Sold my Suffolk and I am selling my Border Leicesters. Need to sell my Lincolns but that is harder than I thought.. I did plant a garden and built a couple of shady ARBORS in front of the house and I am building a 10 x 10 foot wood shed to put wood in for the winter... LOL But I don't have much wood to put in it!! Summer went so fast !!! School is starting soon and I will be working two jobs again....

new Blueface ewes

2009-05-13T17:46:00.000-07:00

I bought two bluefaced leicesters and they had a full fleece. Oh Boy!I am having so much fun with the fleece. I figured out how to wash it keeping the locks so I can use it with my wooly Love Ewes - the Felted Ewes I have been making for years. I started making them with my border leicester fleeces - but making them with blues fleeces really make them really woolie eweonderful!! Like WoW! Check out my web site in the next couple of weeks and I explain the secret of washing locks - LOL It is so simple - I don't know why I didn't do it sooner! It is so cool to watch the tips of the wool dry and the tinyist little curls show up on the ends.

This is a picture of a lock of Lincoln - left- Middle - Border Leicester and right Blueface Leicester
Ok you can't see the tiny curls in this photo. Maybe it was still wet - LOL

Spring

2009-04-22T06:16:00.000-07:00

Spring
Spring is the busiest time for me as I am working more hours at The Home Depot and Subbing - so some days are 14 hours long as I go to a school at 7:00am or 8:00am and head right over to the store and work till closing at 10:00pm.

I have listed some lambs for sale on my web site - but I have had no time to make any graphics

I bought two blue face Leicester ewes and I can't wait to shear them and play with their wool. My farm is going to have three breeds of curlies now - Lincolns with their heavy curls, Border Leicester with their medium curls and now Blue Face Leicester with their fine curls. What fun!!

I just love my life !!!

Spring Break ?

2009-04-06T09:13:00.000-07:00

Yes it is spring break and the schools are closed and it looks like a snow Break!
So I took a picture of the blue spruce in front of the house and made a banner out of it ! which is above! I need the code for putting a picture on the site smaller and have it resized when click on. It works on my web site cause it is builted in!
Have a wooly wonderful day!

new banner

2009-03-15T18:03:00.001-07:00

More Graphics

2009-01-21T07:38:00.000-08:00

This one might be cut off in Blogger - I made this - it was so much fun.
It can be right clicked on my web site under sheepy graphics under my article library

Photo shop Elements

2009-01-19T11:11:00.000-08:00

I have been learning photoshop and here is my latest little sheepy Graphic!

Moon

2009-01-12T18:46:00.000-08:00

Wonderful to have a full moon. - but it is so hard to get a good picture of it

Sheepy Lady's Woolies

2009-01-01T09:33:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T05:54:00.000-08:00

I wish everyone a wonderful New Year!

This picture was taken this morning in the front of the house looking across the road. The sun in the summer comes up behind the house.

Plus I was able to do most of the picture in Photoshop because of John's wonderfully helpful friend.

Katrina (www.sheepylady.com) and (www.crittersittersite.com)

Dec 30 2008

2008-12-30T16:49:00.000-08:00

Wow I went to the mall with my daughter and She went into a store with a pink pokadot chair and I just had to have my picture taken in it
TOO FUNNY!

Sun came out right at the end of the day!

Windy and 32 degrees BRRRR

2008-12-28T08:11:00.000-08:00

Yesterday it was raining and 55 degrees and I could do chores with out a coat and now it is cold and blowing so hard we have weather alerts.

For years I fed the sheep in the barn and then spend weeks cleaning the barn out - Now I don't give em hay in the barn. I feed all hay out in the field till they are near lambing and then they can come in the barn - but most hay is fed out side. That way it only takes me a few hours of mucking out..

Rain for the 27th of December 2008

2008-12-27T10:40:00.000-08:00

Rain today at Ewe Sew Special farm ~ the sheep are just standing there behind the house waiting for the rain to stop ~ They can get out in the field and eat (no snow) - but I bet they are just waiting for me to give em some hay.

They are out eating grass now that the snow has melted!

~~~ The Sheepy Lady ~~~