Horatio

Isn't he adorable? Horatio is 2 weeks old and full of himself!! I would love to sell him as a breeding ram and not as 'freezer food'. He is a purebred Horned Dorset, but unfortunately not registerable. I'd like $125 for him, and you pick him up. That is approximately how much I will get for him at the butcher's, but I don't want to do that. Not unless we absolutely have to....

Very pregnant ewes

Look at that belly and those bags.........

Chocolate romney and Lola.

Silver Romney- "Whatja doing?" Silver and her twin Psycho.

Peeking into the ewes pen.

Come Wednesday, we should be incredibly busy here. Saturday is the last possible due date for Cornelius's babies.

more snow!!

These were taken at 1 pm. The snow has started again and shows no sign of stopping for a while. Weatherbug is calling for wind advisory and 6-8 more inches of snow. Welcome to New England.

These were taken about 8 am. Before it started to snow again!! Poor Jerry is spending a lot of time on his tractor plowing snow and pushing the snow banks back.

Looking from the house to the barn, and alongside the house at my bushes.

The brook out behind the boys side of the barn.

Looking up drive and down at house. Biggest snow banks I've seen here in quite a while.

Front deck. Looking along front of house at the cat walk and my lilacs and burning bush.

Looking at the front of the barn. Manure pile on left. Look at snow that came off the roof.

Look at all the snow on the front of the house that has come off the roof this winter.

Looking down driveway.

Looking at my lilac and burning bush. Pushed back snow banks in front of house.

Looking up the driveway at the pushed bank snow banks.

This one area is at least 6' deep. Pushed back snow banks.

Snow that has come off the barn is pretty deep.

Etsy shop reopened

We are starting to relist items in our Etsy shop. I will still have the fleeces here, but for now I will be putting the sock yarn there, as well as on our yarn blog.

http://eweandifarm.etsy.com/

Happy February

Can you believe it is February already? I have been so busy dyeing this past month, that it zipped right by me....The UFO's (on my knitting blog) that I planned on tackling this month are still languishing in their bag... )o: I have been consistently knitting on my heavy cape though. And that is only because it has a deadline.

We are in for another winter storm tonight. Possibly 6" of snow with ice. I thank God for my Subaru. It does quite well in the snow. If I didn't have Farmer's Market tomorrow, I would stay home and enjoy the sheep. But, I will be there with all my newly dyed roving and yarn. See the yarn blog for pictures of that...

These are from a couple of days ago. We have been letting Horatio mingle with the flock a little at a time. Our newest Horned Dorset ewe from last year, Candace, slammed him into the wall the first time we let him loose. And I thought I was watching pretty closely. )-: But, he is ok and she was reprimanded. He is out with all of the girls full time now. We are just awaiting the rest of the lambs................

Here the girls are distracted by the greens and he is bouncing about. Keira, the first lamb of 2007 is checking him out and deems him ok.

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Chloe, is absolutely fascinated by him and followed him around a lot. (o: