Knitting Season

(bag and yarn by Kate Davies Designs)

I have made the most of it. 

{New to me stitches and techniques in this MKAL by Lyrical Knits. Really fun and clever}. 

 

{this one deserves it's own post when it's completely finished}

A few projects to get done in the next month before 

the page turns to gardening season.

But first of course, it will be shearing season. 

(Inter) National Hug a Sheep Day

It's a real thing folks!

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Pillow Talk

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Happy Monday

Hassie and I both think its going to be a great week.

Hope yours is off to a great start as well.

My First Shearing Day

The Day Before

 Kind Sweet Leo volunteered to go first.

Hassie was next.

"I am sorry Leo. It is what I brought you here for in the first place. Please don't look at me like that"..

 Ornery Mac was putty in our shearer's hands.

 

 And Big Guy Carnie, who has been a bit of a bully lately, finished it off.

Did you expect that brown sheep to have a silver fleece?

The New Look of my little flock. 

A Novice Shepherd and a Blizzard

It would have been nice to have had just a few inches of snow instead of over two feet to test my winter barn skills. I gave my small flock extra nice good orchard grass hay in their inside feeder, extra nice soft straw for bedding and hoped for the best. The sheep's heated water trough is outside and not movable so I had to leave the bottom half of the stall door open. It seems they didn't mind at all. I think a few might have even slept outside from the look of things... seeming to say Silly Lady. We are wool covered sheep. We are made for this weather!

 When it was all over, I shoveled a path out for them to get to their outside feeder, the former pig palace. 

I keep a round bale of mixed hay out there for self feeding when I am cityside. Not ideal for all that vegetable matter working it's way into the fleeces, but for this first year, it will have to do as I navigate my way through my duel life. 

But Hassie decided to make her own path.

Silly Shepherdess.

So all is well at Lindenberry Farm

Hope the same for you.

Let's all belly up to the snow bar!

Sheep on the Mind

In all kinds of ways.

That's Leo of course. The most affectionate lamb in the land.

A quick knit to keep me occupied on a recent road trip,

along with listening to A Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks.

Pattern: Baa-ble. Yarn: oddments from the scrap basket. 

A Sheep Over!

Good Fences

....were made to be climbed.

Because that's what boys do.

When they are not making mud, 

I didn't know they knew how to turn on the hydrants.

or playing with animals,

I have the friendliest sheep.

or exploring their world on their own, using their imaginations and enjoying the bonds of brotherhood.

And making a Marme and Papa very happy.