We have just finished trimming hooves and giving booster vaccinations to the woolies. Often this is stressful as one of our sheep, scratchy is quite crazy. She has almost killed Izzy as a newborn, she has knocked me down at least twice, and has tried to get through very tiny spaces. She lives her life [...]
Another new year has started and I am happy to say I haveĀ made it through the old one. It always feels like a fresh start when the New Year is rung in. January is not a slow month for us here though. Although the animals and gardens are not doing much other parts of [...]
The holidays are just about over and thoughts are now turning back to other things. The week between Christmas and New Years is like a magical world where people are in limbo and no-one is really taking notice of what is going on in the outside world. Attention is focused on family, home, and hearth. [...]
Dark eyed junco.
The great white blanket may be here to stay for a while now. No more teasing flurries and flirty snowflakes. It is all out lay em down snow, and it ain’t going anywhere.
Many of the tell tale signs of winter are now here.The birds are now hanging around the big cedar trees [...]
On November 15 it was our third year anniversary on our mini-farm. and on the 16th it was the first year anniversary with our sheep. We have come a long way since we first moved in.
We have created new gardens, birthed lambs, given vaccinations, canned tomatoes, stacked hay bales, picked apples, built fences, strung electric [...]