Naming the Lambs and the new Scratch thingy

The Cats had decided scratching the back of the chair was a fun thing to do. Me, not so much. So I found a heavy duty card board scratch thingy, not sure what else to call it. And that has seemed to of done the trick. They now happily play on and scratch the new thingy, not the chair. Just wish I thought of it sooner.

Was trying to get Mia to pose pretty for me but she was more interested in playing.

After reading about all the interesting ah.... name ideas for the lambs by my friends and DH ;O) LOL....

I had these two names pop into my head, Apollo and Atlas. Both are named after satellites, as I figure once they figure out where their grain and hay come from, they will be running around me, like two satellites.

It hasn't been a full day yet since they arrived, but this morning when they saw me walking towards them with the feed bucket, I sure had their attention. They even followed me into the shed. Apollo was the first to come up to the bucket before I could back away. Atlas, stood off a little with a hopeful look in his eye, so I backed away and he came and ate out of his feed pan. I do not think it will take long to tame them the way I want. So halter training can start next week.

I do really enjoy having sheep again.

Looks like we are going to finally have a much needed break from the rain today. So much to do, so little time to do it.

Katahdin Lambs arrived this morning.

I have a bit of a grass problem... too much of it in my horse paddocks. I do not want to use Toxic stuff to get rid of the grass, so the next best thing is sheep. They can graze the grass so short the horse's can't get to it but it leaves a cover over the ground and less likely to get muddy.

If things weren't the way they are, would of gotten a couple more. But as they grow the next couple of months, they will start eating more and more grass and weeds.

Can't tell you how much I have missed having sheep. These two wether's are Katahdin hair sheep and I love the colors they have. Another plus, is I do not have to shear.

Will leave them alone for about a week and then halter training begins. Need to be able to move them from pasture to pasture and want them a little more tamed out. Glad I kept all my old sheep stuff from back when.

Katahdins are a medium sized sheep, males weighing between 180 and 200lbs when full grown, so the biggest sheep I have ever dealt with. And one of the few US breeds of sheep.

Spring ? Well Almost

DS going out to do a burn for me. Of course Nari has to help and rode on DS's shoulders all the way out to the burn pile. Nari loves going everywhere with DS and helping him out!

Down in the Valley area's, it has been full spring for a few weeks. Up here in the hills, we are not quite there yet. This is the first spring flower we have blooming. The Japanese cherry trees are no where near blooming yet.

March was extremely wet, in fact the most rain I have ever seen here and April isn't starting out any better.

The next hill over, the one we named "Rainbow Hill" doesn't disappoint. All we need is a little rain, no problem there and a bit of sunshine and we always get a rainbow, this one is a large double!

Above is the close up and below, can see the double.

NOT moving to VA

No go on the Move, they decided to not pay for the fencing and wanted to up the rent $400.00 a month. Neither which we can afford to do.

If we had that kind of money, we would of taken one of a couple of nice rentals that had big 6 stall, full barns with lofts, many out sheds, fully fenced and crossed fenced and turn key for horses. One was asking $1,300 a month the other $1,500 a month.

So $1,600 a month for a place not set up for horses, no barn or fencing... lets just say if I had the money I would pass on it any way.

We would rather just own our own place and not get jurked around by land lords.

So will be here until the Farm sells.

Tree over driveway now out of the way.

Before and after pictures of the Branches of the Japanese flowering cherry tree in the drive way.

Tree over the drive way as been trimmed. We had to use a ladder, hack saw and pruners, managed to get it trimmed as far up as we could. I got the bigger branches and had DS do the clean up. Might not be able to get a big truck in but at least I can get the E out. Once the roads are plowed that is, what a mess out there.
DS heard something like a tree coming down and then he said Mom, the power lines are bouncing. Sure enough, told him if them come down to run to the house. Luckily, all they did was bounce wildly.
The adventures in Oregon. :P

Had to add this photo, kind cool, snow is sticking every where!

More Snow

Can see why we are not going any where until I can figure out what to do with the branches hanging over the drive way.

Power out last night, off and on for.. seemed like forever, feed back through the lines and I have never heard a Frig Electronically scream, lights over bright in bursts but before I could get to the house's circuit breaker to shut the house off, the power went out.
Look out the windows this morning,we a heavy wet snow and we got 12". Power finally back on this morning but it is flickering, so I not sure how long it will stay on. :P

Not sure if all the electronic stuff is working, will check it all out later, when I know the power is going to stay on.

I have to go to town tomorrow... stupid weather. If this keeps up, will have to change the appointment to get the transmission serviced. sigh ~~

Had to turn the hot wire off, at least until this snow goes away.

Just a shot of the branches. Hopefully no more trees come down, cutting our power.

Mini Horse pasture looking towards the house.

Here the Doug Fir trees look like they are wearing wigs.

Can hear branches coming down around us, even heard a big tree go down in the back woods of the property.

Something I will have to go check out when the weather is better.

More Horse photographs in the snow

Beautiful shot of Edda's face.

Edda, Stjarna and Maggie are Enjoying a Run.

She just had to buck, LOL, look at Dyfra's tail!

I made sure of have DS bring Stjarna back in and Edda decided to follow.