A friend is coming over to buy two sheep today, and I think we’ll be done selling animals, at least until the goats kid next month. The rest of the sheep are getting penned up and fed hay for a couple of months, to let the pasture recover and so they’ll put on weight. And ED and I will finish shearing—they all look really silly right now since we sheared only their backs for the good wool!
Here’s one more lamb picture—I couldn’t resist, it was just so darn cute!
Hallie had a single ewe lamb today—isn’t she adorable?
I did get the greenhouse planted this past weekend. I’m waiting impatiently for the first sprouts, which should show any day. Our weather has been fantastic the last couple of days—in the 60′s—so the greenhouse is staying quite warm!
Yesterday we finally did our sheep roundup, and the good news is that most everybody was in better condition than I was afraid they were! We wormed, and did a little shearing (more today), and checked the ewes for pregnancy (one soon, and two in a few weeks). We also decided to sell two ewes.
This is the greenhouse yesterday morning and afternoon. We have the bed all prepared, but I haven’t planted it yet, which is just as well, since it’s been so cold the last few days that the buckets of water inside the greenhouse were frozen solid! I’ll get it planted this weekend.
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Now playing: Dry Branch Fire Squad – Devil, Take the Farmer
via FoxyTunes
It’s so much more fun to do chores in the snow than in the mud! Today we’ve got 6 or 7 inches—sadly, our first real snow of the winter!
Happy Candlemas! My favorite holiday of the year: the end of solar winter, the first day of spring, the noticeable return of the light, the Festival of Brigit, Imbolc, Ewe’s Milk. I feel we’ve made it through winter, even though hideous March is still looming in the distance. And even though we are waiting for a winter storm, which, according to who you ask, will either be the Storm of the Century, or maybe just give us a couple of inches of snow. I’ll let you know which one tomorrow!