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| Remembering Grandma Lena on her birthday Sherrell Wigal, performance poet from Parkersburg, WV; transcribed from ‘Allegheny Echoes – A Program of Live Music and Poetry’ from Allegheny Mountain Radio |
Month: August 2011
{this moment}
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week.
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog.
photo credit: daughter/niece Lena
Come and Get It
Lamb Scoring
Saturday was FAMACHA scoring day again for the lambs. It was foggy and wet, but they came in to the barn like troopers. They are slowly beginning to understand the routine. Scores were not quite as good as the last time, but we have had a lot of hot and wet weather which can make parasite loads spike. We kept three lambs in the barn for some extra care as they scored 4’s making them a little anemic. We will give them vitamin shots and an iron shot to give them a little boost to get back on the right track.
Sunday Muse
“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade
and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day…
Guard your fragile life carefully…” — Og Mandino
{this moment}
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week.
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog.
Just Because
Lamb pictures.. in the pasture… just because…
The Big Weekend
As many weekends are… this was a very busy weekend on the farm. We moved the yearlings and the older ewes back to the granddaddy green by the barn. It is so great to have them back at the barn, if only for a little while. In a couple weeks we will move them to a paddock where they will have access to one of the hayfields during the day. We also moved the rams to a new paddock… inching slowly towards breeding season.
Took Raven into the woods after doing a little work with the goat boys, and flushed that blasted fox. It took off up over the hill through the graveyard field.
Celebrated Mom’s birthday… Happy Birthday, once again, Mom! Great-granddaughter Harley is ready to help blow out the twenty candles she counted to put on the cake.
And we sold a dozen of our ewes – yearlings and proven two-year-olds. Many, many thanks to the McComb family for making the trip from Marlinton to buy some of our girls. We are so excited that they are going to a handspinner’s flock. We hope they will love the fleeces the girls produce and enjoy spinning them as much as we do!
C’mon Lambs
Feeding time… apologies for the quality… had a lot of help from (the not so little anymore) Mr. 1001, who thinks he is the center of the universe, and constantly has to remind the shepherdess/s of this fact.
{this moment}
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week.
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog
