Not a whole lot going on but there really never is during the school year.
We are pretty much done lambing with one left to go. Some of the yearling ewes might be in lamb for May babies but we'll see when we get there....Can you tell we don't have a lot of control with the lambings?
This last year has been a complete fence-o-rama for us. This included taking down and putting up acres and acres of fence. Some of it was new and some of it was re-fenced. Our fences were all close to 80-90 years old and probably older. We lost a lot of our handling facilities in the process ( will be rebuilt this spring). Meaning we had no place to put our 5 rams ( down to 3
) let alone a way to sort them out. Sadly, our agressive ( depending on the day) Henry is the easiest of the rams to handle without catch pens. Eli is over 300 lb, his head hits my shoulder and, as mannerly as he is, he panics during sortings ( not fun and not safe!). Black ram is smaller ( roughly around 200lbs) and still isn't fun to handle but we're pretty evenly matched.
We had babies born starting on December 4th, a full two months a head of usual and I suspect some of the early lambing ewes have bred back already. That isn't a huge issue seeing as they are in good condition now and we don't plan on lamb next year until April or May.
To end my rambling rant I merely ment to say it frusterates the bejeebies out of me to have to such little control over my sheep! I won't be complaining (much...I won't work through lunch! You can't make me!
) when it comes time to rebuild our chutes.
Anywho moving on.
My summer plans are still in formation and I don't have anythign to share as of yet....Except one of my H.S. friends is planning a post-21 trip to Las Vegas
. It sounds like it would be me, her mom, a couple of college friends, and our other best friend from high school. The other friend and I are both no-so Vegas-y...It would probably end up with them drunk, mom included, and us babysitting. There would probably several activities I wouldn't be comfortable with and I don't drink or really gamble ( if I lose money it may aswell be on livestock or ice cream!) She wants to go for 4-5 days which I really don't think I can swing...Finacially, I could probably hack it. I'm only mildly ashamed to say my parents cover a lot of my expenses as my dad has a no working during school policy...an exception made for my research gig....But I don't want to ask for 5 days off from an employer when I know I will have a couple of weekend family things I'll need time off for.
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