From the monthly archives:

November 2004

Baptism By Fire

November 21, 2004

So just before we went to bed last night, I heard rumblings from the sheep quarters, but Frank didn’t hear anything, and I thought I was mistaken, so we just went to bed without checking. That probably was a bad idea. We are still very new to this farming thing, obviously. At 6 this morning, [...]

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A letter to the sheep

November 20, 2004

Dear Sheep: Kaytla, you are a bitch of the first degree. And yeah, we think we’ve gotten all the holes patched so you can’t get out anymore. Thanks for waking us up so bright and early this morning. Getting out three times is really more than is required, don’t you think? And um, you really [...]

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More sheep, free

November 15, 2004

I think we are certifiably insane at this point. We are hugely busy trying to get ready for the sheep this fall, but on track to make it, and somehow we’ll find time to get the firewood in. When Todd was over helping with the sheds the other day, his wife Debby wrote to me [...]

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Cast removal, Second Shed Frame

November 14, 2004

Valerie came over today to help remove the little lame lamb’s cast, finally. It’s been three weeks, I think. Close enough to the month the vet was hoping for. The vet had said anything over two weeks would be fine, and to go as long as we could with it. But the lamb had a [...]

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The First Sheep Shed Frame

November 11, 2004

We worked outside a lot today, on the sheep sheds, of course. Now that we’ve got the yards penned in, we don’t have to worry about the ground freezing and not being able to get the posts in. We had enough lumber cut on the sawmill to start framing one of the sheds, and getting [...]

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Fences

November 10, 2004

Calvin gave us some incredibly good fencing that he’d taken up at his place. Frank went over to get it yesterday, and came home with three bundles of woven wire. He thinks this stuff is much better for going up hills like we’re going to have to do, and we feel grateful to have gotten [...]

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First Snow of the winter

November 9, 2004

I guess having the first snowfall of the year on November 9th really isn’t early. It feels like it, though, because we are so not ready for snow to fly. They’d been telling us were were going to get hammered here in the Monadnock region, four or five inches, which would have been a lot [...]

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