Buggy Ride

A while back, our wonderful neighbors, Junior and Smokey, came to our house to take Lena and me for a buggy ride. Smokey is a very special horse to Lena. On many, many walks we have stopped along the way to pet Smokey and feed him grass, or a yummy treat of carrots. It was a great treat for us to take a buggy ride along a country road, and I am sure it will be a special memory tucked away in Lena's heart.

Sally Ann and Kismet

We usually bring our old girl, Sally Ann, into the barn for a little extra TLC every morning. She and Kismet seem to have developed a special relationship. He loves to torture her while she eats her grain. She really doesn't mind all this attention, and usually just continues slowly and patiently eating.

With breeding season concluded, it is time to separate the breeding groups and move the rams into a pasture. We decided to try advice that we found on the 'Lavender Fleece' website and move the rams into a very small area for 24 hours. Here are the boys after we finally maneuvered them into a 4X4 area. We thought we would have problems with Hercules, but Liam was the bully of the group. By the next day they were pretty settled, and we didn't have any trouble moving them into their new pasture. However, once there, Liam decided he had to re-establish his dominance and bullied the others for the next couple days.

Here are some of the girls in their new pasture, settling in for the long winter wait for spring lambs!

Happy New Year!

We want to take this time to reflect and to thank everyone that helped us make such tremendous strides this year. We had a wonderful time and learned so much from other shepherds and fiber lovers and of course from the sheep themselves. Thank you to all our new customers. It has been great fun developing new relationships all across the country. And we can't forget to thank everyone in the family for all their support and help throughout the year.

We are so excited beginning this new year and look forward to our first lamb - Fiona is due on February 25th.