we’re trying to get back to a routine that involves going to bed at a reasonably early hour.  when John got home this evening there was a sheep with blood on his head.  It turned out that Cyclops (there’s a dot between his eyes)  had bashed his head against something and cracked a horn a […]

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Yesterday we shot sheep, until we ran out of vaccines, and wormed them, and put ear tags on a whole bunch.  Today the shearer comes along with a couple of herding dogs which might get the last ten wild ones in.  Tonight we’ll collapes!
Charlie, the first lamb of the year, has six horns!  She’s our […]

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So I was going to post sheep pictures, but then I backed up the site and asked John if he could so the things to upgrade us.  Then Logan got sick.  And I got sick.  And John came down with something involving a sore throat and fever.  And Logan got better but her cough from […]

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who get vilely sick in the middle of the night. Now there’s a pile of icky newspaper and rags right outside the door too. Thanks John. And thanks for cleaning it up of course. We’ll feed the dogs lightly this morning.
We’re in our first week of spring break, and Logan has […]

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Today we had snow falling from before 8AM until about 4PM.  John estimates we have five to six inches on the ground.  He, Logan, Jasmine and I went out and threw it at each other, rolled some up in to big balls on the ground, and Logan made a small snow person.  It’s very pretty.  […]

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