Busy, busy weekend here. I sheared my sheep. This was the first time shearing in the stand with the electric clippers (last year was by hand with hand shears). I'm still learning and hope to be almost as good as a professional some day (I need to find someone with a flock, who wants free shearing, who doesn't care what they look like after shearing, to practice on - lol). Their wool is so thick that getting down near the skin is really hard work. The electric shears cut like butter near the surface but in the thick of it, they struggle to get through. The hardest thing is having the strength to wrestle a sheep and then manage the weight of the vibrating shears while just coming out of such a hard winter (I admit to being a lump inside most of the time). You really need to be in shape and I was not in shape. So I'm a little sore today, but more sore from boiling sap actually, than wrestling sheep (all that bending over the fire for a day). Good spinning wool though! Nice staple length this year, about 5", 6" in spots. Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!
Tartan requires a caption. He's saying something but I don't know what. Probably something about the indignity of his owners leaving that top knot on his head, the nick on his right leg, or maybe something about the girls head butting.
We also finished boiling the rest of the maple sap. No more! LOL. We ended up with 15 quarts total (not including what we've already eaten), the earlier batches of which may be on the thin side but oh well. Still, we got 5 quarts out of yesterday's batch that was DARK and THICK and RICH and I LOVE IT and I'm NOT SELLING it.
It's mine.
Our egg sales have been abysmal as well. I have probably 12 dozen eggs in the fridge. Last year I donated to a food pantry. I'm thinking it's time to consider doing that again. It's a pain though because they don't want the green and blue eggs (they have to look like they came from the grocery store, even in grocery store containers). Maybe I could find a more lenient food pantry though?
Tartan requires a caption. He's saying something but I don't know what. Probably something about the indignity of his owners leaving that top knot on his head, the nick on his right leg, or maybe something about the girls head butting.
We also finished boiling the rest of the maple sap. No more! LOL. We ended up with 15 quarts total (not including what we've already eaten), the earlier batches of which may be on the thin side but oh well. Still, we got 5 quarts out of yesterday's batch that was DARK and THICK and RICH and I LOVE IT and I'm NOT SELLING it.
Our egg sales have been abysmal as well. I have probably 12 dozen eggs in the fridge. Last year I donated to a food pantry. I'm thinking it's time to consider doing that again. It's a pain though because they don't want the green and blue eggs (they have to look like they came from the grocery store, even in grocery store containers). Maybe I could find a more lenient food pantry though?
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I would be willing to share a chicken or 2 
