Sheep waiting to go out

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

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

Lambs lambs

Lots of baby lambs!

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

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

working and working

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

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!

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?

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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

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

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 ?

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

More Graphics

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