Good Morning!

The sunlight this morning was beautiful!  Have the sunrises not been very stellar lately or am I just not seeing them for some reason?  I noticed a different light coming through the kitchen door this morning and  when I got out to the barn I was able to quickly snap this picture...and maybe felt a little glimmer of normal or old times or...I'm not sure what to call it.

Nothing is really going wrong here.  In fact, I almost feel like I'm further ahead then normal for this crazy time of the year.  Still, everything feels a bit heavy and sad.  Or is hitting harder than it should.  Or something.  Even Pinto looks like he's looking for something. I'm glad I have my sheep to get me up to the barn to catch the sunrise.  

As requested via IG, here it is as a new puzzle.  It's a fun one :-).

Good Evening!

Taking care of old sheep can be a real challenge, balancing quality of life with whatever issues they face, usually just arthritis.  Seeing these three out grazing in front of the Wool House the other night made me very happy.  All that green grass made them happy as well.  

It's still sad seeing The Bald Eagle out by herself without her beloved sister, Goldilocks, but she's chummy enough with the other chickens, so she's pretty happy too.  

Do you see Pinot?  He's pretty happy as well, living his best bunny life :-).

It's too nice out to be sitting inside, but if you'd like a puzzle to work later, I think this looks like a fun one.  Enjoy!

Photo Fail

Sorry for the lack of after shearing shots.  I took a couple, but wasn't able to get everyone in them and thought I'd just go back and do some more later...and then it was too dark.  It ended up being a pretty long day because we didn't start shearing until mid afternoon.   

Not a great picture, but it made a fun puzzle :-).

I loved seeing Maisie and Short Round out chowing down on fresh green grass.  This wasn't the best picture of them, but it includes Murphy and I wanted to show his fancy gray spots that you can only see just after shearing.

"We'll try to do better next time."  Tony Kornheiser

Pinot Brown-o

Remember when I had a white rabbit with just a hint of gray scattered across his back?  Pinot is working on a huge construction project under that big rock he's sitting on and now he's looking more like a natural dye  experiment with red clay and brown top soil accents. 

He's digging a tunnel under the sidewalk heading up the front of the Wool House, not trying to get out under the fence.  I'm guessing he's working on a warren, but maybe it's just a tunnel.  I know he's having a ton (cubic ton?) of fun.

Hair Cut Day

I kept meaning to go out last week and take pictures of everyone while they were still in full fleece because as much as I love knowing my sheep are comfortable and cool, I miss tucking my hands in their long curly fleeces, so shearing is a little sad for me.  I also planned to take a bunch of pictures throughout shearing yesterday and didn't manage to get that pulled off either.  

I did take this quick picture of Krista and Maggie right before we were ready to start shearing and I love the two of them side by side.  Krista loved both of her lambs, but was always a bit sweeter on Christopher as a baby and I remember watching Maggie get just a tiny bit less attention and thinking about what would happen once they both grew up.  Christopher still hangs with the family, but Maggie is always the one right by her side.  

I did take some pictures of a neighbor's sheep as she was getting shorn and while you don't know or recognize this sheep, if you look behind her, you might recognize the orange and white kitty.  Bullseye stuck around for all the people showing up and the clamor of sheep moving and the first sheep being sheared before he decided it was a bit too noisy on the front line and moved onto the hay stack behind him.  He's come a long way and is just a darling kitten.

Thankfully I had the idea to set up my iPad to do a time lapse video throughout the afternoon and that worked really well and is a fun souvenir from a good day with my favorite sheep and friends.  

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I realize some of you can't watch it without an IG account, but I don't know any way around that so just know that I'm sorry.  Maybe some day I'll try to get YouTube going, but at this point I'd just be happy if I could keep the blog current.  Hopefully now that the stress of shearing is over and I feel like a huge weight has been lifted, I'll get re-focused...pun intended.