Lambing

It snowed this morning so naturally lambing started.  After work went around to check on everyone.  Watered the puppies and the rabbits and went under the lean to since saw something not exactly right and there they were, a ewe with three lambs!  One white, one brown and one black, two girls and one boy.  More to come.

Snowy day

It snowed very steadily today with an accumulation of over one foot.  I watched while Windy (a llama/alpaca mix) watched my friend plowed out my driveway since the diesel in my tractor gelled with the low temperatures.  I kept busy by satisfying my tactile senses with sorting fiber into length, micron width, grade and color.  Some of the fleeces were fine and felt really good.   After I finish this client's fiber harvest I plan on working on sorting sheep fleeces to become a certified wool sorter.  I love natural animal fiber.

Introduction

This morning I woke up chuckling about the events that emanate from these these twenty acres.  This acreage is inhabited by me, a fifty-two year old  ex urbanite who escaped to the pacific northwest fourteen years ago, twenty plus alpacas, two llamas, twenty plus sheep, just under twenty rabbits, twenty plus chickens, two guinea hens, one dog and two cats.  Those are the animals that I know live here.  I suspect that there may be others but they are hiding.  There are several fields surrounding the various buildings and my home.  The most peaceful area is the pine tree forest where the only evidence of human habitation is the perimeter fence.  There is always something going on.  For example my tractor is sitting by the gates to the hay barn not moving because I suspect that there are gelled areas in the diesel even though I put 9-1-1 in with the diesel to get rid of any water and there is about six to eight inches of snow and more is expected.  Things will be taken care of.