New Additions to the Flock and Gardening

 

The breeder I bought my sheep from had some bottle babies for sale, and well, we were looking to diversify our herd anyways. So, I drove 4 hours one way to pick up these little darlings. A white ewe and two ram lambs. The ram lambs are really unique coloring, officially called silver blackbellies. The garden is doing really well this year! I've been picking Swiss Chard, Radishes, and Loose Leaf Lettuce. The Sugar Snap peas have just started producing little pods! Yum!

Surprise!!!

Yesterday, my husband was looking out the window to the front pasture and said "I think you have a new lamb". You've got to be kidding me! Moonstruck really pulled a fast one over me. No way did she look like she was bred. So, I had to go way out in the front pasture and get the lamb and try and coax Moonstruck back to the shed to put her in the maternity ward. A little white ewe lamb! Yehaw! Both mom and babe are doing well and are in their own paddock enjoying fresh grass today.

Spinning, Spinning, Spinning

All the sheep have been shorn. And I've washed all but one of the 2011 fleeces. Yesterday I started flick carding and spinning Jacynda's fleece. What a lovely fleece she has. So soft and easy to spin. Another reason she has become my favorite ewe. I really hope next year she gives me a ewe lamb or two!

Lately we had been having such wonderfully warm weather with higher than normal temps for this time of year. Well, of course, the weather sling shot in the other direction last weekend. Rain, rain, and more rain, plus thunder sleet, a little hail, and temps in the 30's at night. I hope the garden makes it through this last ditch effort of Mr. Winter!