Yes, bad pun, but a terrible strain of the flu, yes that one, the one that everyone seems to be getting lately, hit our home with a vengeance this past week. I wasn’t even able to escape it. Though my instincts tell me that my immune system was not at it’s strongest what with all…
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We have a SURPRISE lamb!
Our yearling ewe surprised us and lambed today! She is barely a year old herself, so this was quite unintentional. It must have been a result of that time this winter when the rams knocked the gate off of it’s hinges and were in with the ewes. Oops! The good news is that mama and…
Twins 2007
We have *_%{color:maroon}TWINS ! ! !%_* Mama Romney gave birth to twins sometime today. p=. A white one … _’All Legs’_ p=. And a black one … with a dash of white on the head and the tip of the tail (for now). p=. These are pure Romney, whereas the the first lamb, Blondie’s, we…
Our First Lamb 2007
This is so exciting! Blondie, the _’ewe that rammed me’_, delivered an adorable, little, black lamb sometime between the time The Boy was there feeding them last night and when him and MnM went out there to feed them earlier this evening! p=. The lamb and Blondie both seem to be well – we were…
Alive and Knitting
I was working on these socks, test knitting, but the pattern has been “realeased”:http://knittinmom.blogspot.com/2006/09/do-i-take-advantage.html so it’s not such a secret anymore. “Knittin Mom’s”:http://knittinmom.blogspot.com selling the pattern for a great cause, and it’s a beautiful pattern. I’m hoping mine fit me p=. I’ve turned the heels and I’m narrowing in on the toes. I did have…
Farm Updates for late July 2006
This past Wednesday we put the lambs in with rams and ewes. They were in a smaller pasture than the other animals, and had eaten down every bit of green grass from within their fence and one foot out side of it. Now, the ram lambs, the lambs, and Sam the sheep dog (Great Pyrenees)…