The lovely Oreo

frosty mornings.

It's safe to say that Summer is over.  Frost is here and the woodstove is up and running most of the time. This was a tough season in general.  All we've got to show at this end of the growing season is a whole bunch of popcorn, 6 quarts of tomato juice, and a handful of snake gourds.

This photo was taken the weekend before we put the sheep in with their rams.  Blue Ewe Kendall, has taken over as lead ewe.  Alice is firmly in second place, these days.

And, as always the lovely Oreo. Mary-Kate and Ashley in the background, all grown up and looking for a man.

sheep in general.

Everyone in the barnyard seems to be doing alright these days.  More shearing will take place this sunday, only 2 jacobs to go, then we'll start in on the longwools.  I love working on the jacobs because their clean legs make some of the more finicky shearing noneexistant.  Seems like the Lincolns esp have wool coming out of every inch of their body and if it doesn't all come off they just look scrappy.  This is only our second year shearing and we are definately still learing, but above you can see a photo of Oreo, with springerle in the front and Maisies boy on the right. 

I love this photo of Maisie's boy getting a drink.  Look at that form.

Springerle on the other hand has decided to go ahead and try to eat some hay.  It is true that Jacobs seem to get by on more scrubby hay than other sheep, but I think a lamb with a stick in her mouth may be pushing it.  More than likely this photo acts as Springerle's protest piece!  Green pastures are just ahead girls, give us just a couple more weeks to grow... (and get some fences patched).

meat #2, a teeswater X Lincoln doesn't care about eating milk or hay.  The teeswater boys are already so big, they don't even seem to care about playing with the other lambs.  Eating and napping is all they are interested in at this point.  We'll shear this beast of a mother this weekend, and she'll probably be much more comfortable, especially in these 80degree spring days we've been having.

The lovely Oreo

I have shared photos of Oreo and her lamb Springerle a little bit ago, but just wanted to post this photo of Oreo.  She's a really sweet sheep and doesn't give us any trouble.  Oreo came from Georgia, from Patchwork Farm. You can see photos of Oreo's mother (Macaroon here).

Linda and Dave have some beautiful Jacob sheep, and we consider ourselves lucky to have one of their animals.  Maybe she'll be sheared after this weekend.

OREO HAD A EWE!

Patchwork Oreo had her baby.  We went down to Georgia to buy Oreo after falling in love her entire family online.  This lamb has been the most anticipated of the season.  I'm so glad she's had a ewe lamb. There will be more photos to follow as she gets cleaned up and moving better, but these are for you, for now... (Linda)

p.s. her name is Springerle

last but not least. a quick photo of the newest additions to the nursery today.

Ram-5. Ewes-5