Archive for November, 2004
Posted: November 30th, 2004 by
Frank
Today was a cleanup day: I put the last boards back on Sue’s shelter, and then went around putting at least one screw into all of the siding boards. He’ll have to work much harder to get them off again. I put rails in to hang the water and mineral buckets on. The water buckets
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Posted under Building, Sheep.
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Posted: November 29th, 2004 by
Frank
Herewith, another thirty-six hours in the saga of the sheep. After we got Panic into his micro pen yesterday, I took Lisa to the airport. When I got back it was almost dark, and there were intermittent bangings from the sheep compound. Of course when I went down to check, everybody was the soul of
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Posted under Firewood, Rams, Sheep.
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Posted: November 28th, 2004 by
Lisa
So no one got out last night, despite the new shed fencing being adjusted very late last night. Woo! It’s like we are getting the hang of this. (Knocking madly on wood just in case.) When I went to feed the mamas and the papas, they went out to where we’d been feeding them all
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Posted under Rams, Sheep, Shetland.
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Posted: November 27th, 2004 by
Lisa
We rushed off to HomeDepot as soon as everyone was fed this morning to get the three metal roof panels for this last shed. Unfortunately, they only had three left and they were in pretty grim shape, but we couldn’t wait for more to come in, so we just took the discount and took them
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Posted under Building, Firewood, Sheep, Sheep Sheds.
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Posted: November 26th, 2004 by
Lisa
I’m slowly figuring out what the little Shetlands like. I took all the left-over veggies from Thanksgiving day out there mid-morning, determined to find something they’ll like. When I go inside the pen and just sit there, today they crowded all around me, and I got generally sniffed and prodded, and got to do a
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Posted under Sheep.
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Posted: November 24th, 2004 by
Lisa
I’m really amazed at the progress we made in just about two and a half hours this morning. We’ve got Thanksgiving tomorrow, and it started raining around noon, so we knew it was going to be a short day outside because we have so much inside stuff that has to get done. So we started
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Posted under Building, Red Scoop of Joy, Sheep, Sheep Sheds.
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Posted: November 23rd, 2004 by
Lisa
We did a lot today, and I’m exhausted, but if I don’t get it out now, it won’t get written, so I’ll write while the tub fills up, and then we’ll go soak away the aches and pains. We do that a lot, lately. That tub almost belongs in our list of handy farm equipment,
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Posted under Building, Red Scoop of Joy, Sawmill, Sheep, Sheep Sheds, Shredded Paper, Tractor.
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Posted: November 21st, 2004 by
Lisa
So just before we went to bed last night, I heard rumblings from the sheep quarters, but Frank didn’t hear anything, and I thought I was mistaken, so we just went to bed without checking. That probably was a bad idea. We are still very new to this farming thing, obviously. At 6 this morning,
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Posted under Farm Life, Fencing, Red Scoop of Joy, Sheep, Valerie.
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Posted: November 20th, 2004 by
Lisa
Dear Sheep: Kaytla, you are a bitch of the first degree. And yeah, we think we’ve gotten all the holes patched so you can’t get out anymore. Thanks for waking us up so bright and early this morning. Getting out three times is really more than is required, don’t you think? And um, you really
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Posted under Farm Life, Fencing, Princess, Sheep.
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Posted: November 15th, 2004 by
Lisa
I think we are certifiably insane at this point. We are hugely busy trying to get ready for the sheep this fall, but on track to make it, and somehow we’ll find time to get the firewood in. When Todd was over helping with the sheds the other day, his wife Debby wrote to me
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Posted under Sheep, Shetland.
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