This was not a blog post I expected to write. This was not a situation I thought would happen. Not to my Sparkle Sheepie. I know I write these posts to help process my grief, and I have been fighting back tears all morning. I think I've got all 5 stages of grief battling it out inside me right now. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance - Oh, i thought one of them was exhaustion. Seriously. It started Friday - she struggled to come out of the barn. I thought m

It's that time of year when babies come in quantities, and the weather is not always kind. Although it has been an unusually warm December, today started to get pretty chilly out there. When the temps start dipping below freezing, we put the animals up in the barn at night. We did recently have two lambs born on the same night, and I moved them both to the nursery stall. We keep one stall in the barn kind of clean and dry in preparation for lambing and babies. If all goes wel

It's never easy to say goodbye to a good sheep. But we know that harvesting them, for us, is a better end than any that Mother Nature has...

MAN - sweater weather just can't get here fast enough! I can't STAND the 100degF days of summer. It's hard on me, it's hard on my animals...