5 bales in and more on the way. All that worry during the summer and here we are almost ready for winter with a good supply of hay arriving Tomorrow will see the rest of the hay arrive.
Ipwitch the non-ram has been enjoying getting his jollies off with the old ewe who suffered a nasty case of fly strike last spring. I really didn't mean for her to be bred.... she's really too old... but then I'm not sure she is since Ipwitch, we're pretty sure, doesn't have the equipment to enjoy her hind quarters even though he is trying..... although I have to admit that I've never seen a non-ram lift the skirts of a femme fetale and have at her. We bought Ipwitch as a ram and then Teapot discovered that he didn't have the equipment to do the job... we contacted the breeder and told her she had sold us a dud... she gave us another ram to replace Ipwitch, but now we're wondering if Ipwitch was hiding his equipment when we flipped him on his butt for a looksee... We were going to slaughter both of those sheep.... now we may have to keep them. I don't want to slaughter a sheep that might have a lamb. And I don't want to slaughter a perfectly good ram. Sheep! argh!!
The horse will soon be heading back to the arena where we board her for the winter, that way Daughter #1 can ride after school in the arena which is heated. The horse will also have shelter which she wouldn't have here... we didn't build her a barn when we built her the paddock she is in.
It is funny how we set goals for ourselves here on the farm but they never seem to be met. Teapot intended on putting in the new steps to our veranda on the front of the house. But that didn't happen. He thought he would get the roof on the electrical shed.... but that didn't happen, he thought he would finish the fencing for the three new paddocks.... and only one paddock got finished... the other two are only partially done. But then I have to wonder what we did all summer long. I was going to help him when he got to the work on the roof but he never got to it so I couldn't help him.... and I sure couldn't do it myself.
So with September winding down and summer at an end.... with freezing temperatures starting to set in... well.... we will have to wait for next summer to get some more of these jobs done.
I have finished the level 3 homework and it has gone in the mail. I have paid the marking fee and now I wait. I have been looking at my level 4 books and starting to think about what is next. For level 4 I will be starting to spin more exotic fibres. Bison is the first one. I spun the other night on my charka about 15 gm of bison fibre which turned out nicely except it was underspun in some areas.... so the plied yarn is not satisfactory for a sample for my books. It was all the bison fibre that I had so now I am scouting websites that sell bison roving.... if you know of a source then please by all means do leave the contact info. in the comments.
Well 6:30 has come and gone and Teapot has unloaded the hay so I had better go too....
I'm really hoping my back will be a little better today....
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