First Lamb of 2007

Fiona had our first lamb of the season. She is our 3 year old Coopworth X Blue Faced Border Leicester that we purchased, already bred, from Martha McGrath (http://www.deerrunsheepfarm.com) last fall. She had a beautiful single white ram lamb this morning.



It will be a while before we have more lambs as put our rams with our ewes later than Martha.

Wool Socks

Finished these scrumptious wool socks recently. They are made from 100% superwash merino wool sock yarn -- "mountain sunset" from www.Lavendersheep.etsy.com . The pattern is from Knitting Vintage Socks book by Nancy Bush. (Received both the yarn and the book at Christmastime-- THANK YOU to my sisters!) They were really fun to knit and are yummy and warm to wear. Hopefully soon we will be knitting socks from our own handspun wool.

And . . . Oh Yeah . . . Guess I should mention . . . It's snowing again . . .

Snow, Ice, and More Snow

Mother Nature has sure been making up for the mild winter we had been having, by dealing out very cold, windy, snowy and icy weather the past couple of weeks.

We have had a couple of feet of snow followed by at least an inch of ice, then topped off with another 3 - 4 inches of snow. If you walk carefully, you can walk on top of the ice with just a few sudden break-throughs into the deep snow below to throw you off balance.

The ice has done a number on a couple of the temporary fences we have while others appear less affected.

Several of the sheep have ice coats but do not seem to mind at all.

The sun shone brightly today to show off the ice but didn't get warm enough to actually melt off much.

Warmer weather is coming soon!?!?