Archive for December, 2004
Posted: December 24th, 2004 by
Lisa
I’m home from working on a project, and the sheepies mostly remembered me. As a matter of fact, I got a really fine introduction to life back on the farm because when we got home from the airport, I looked out back at the sheep and saw Panic sort of just wandering around, loose from
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Posted under Farm Life, Rams, Red Scoop of Joy.
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Posted: December 19th, 2004 by
Frank
Last year we called it a year on November 23, because everything was done. This year I’m calling it on December 19th because it’s supposed to snow tonight. Lisa joked last year that we were afraid to stack anymore firewood because we always run out and we didn’t want to see the winter we’d get
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Posted under Chainsaw, Farm Life, Firewood, Sheep, Snow, Tractor.
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Posted: December 15th, 2004 by
Frank
Lisa is back in on the job out of town, so I’m on my own. I was out on business Tuesday and didn’t get back until after five. The sheep had started bedding down, but roused quickly for hay. I’ve read that they don’t like to chew cud after dark, and thus when fed late
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Posted under Firewood, Sheep.
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Posted: December 13th, 2004 by
Lisa
It snowed overnight, not more than an inch or so, and when I went to see how the sheepies handled it, I found the Icelandics all inside their shelters, and there were these little black spots of bare ground where the Shetlands had all spent the night out in the snow, the little weirdos. I
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Posted under Icelandic, Sheep, Shetland.
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Posted: December 11th, 2004 by
Lisa
Two weeks away from the sheepies and they almost forgot me. (sniff) When I went out in the morning to feed hay, instead of calling out when they heard my voice like they did before I left, they waited until they heard Frank before the chorus of “baaaa”s got going in full force. Then when
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Posted under Farm Life, Red Scoop of Joy, Sheep.
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Posted: December 6th, 2004 by
Frank
I was away for the weekend, visiting Lisa on location. Valerie and her boyfriend Kevin took care of the sheep over the weekend. All went well except she reports that Sue is coughing. Lisa also mentions that she’s heard it. I’ve heard him cough twice, a couple weeks apart. Again today he didn’t cough at
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Posted under Icelandic, Sheep, Shetland, Valerie, cough, illness.
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Posted: December 1st, 2004 by
Frank
It was a windy, rainy day today. The cats and I stayed in, the sheep all stayed under cover. Even the Shetlands decided it wasn’t worth running away when I started scarily waving hay around. The weather station on top of our roof shows a peak gust of 51 mph, the fastest of the year.
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Posted under Farm Life, Hay, Rain, Wind.
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