Shear lots'o sheep (live ones!) daily.Butcher ram after shearing him (he was the last).
May 30th
Plant corn field by the house
6:00PM Take a Walk with the kids around the corn field, to the sheep corral and back to the house. Stop along the way to play in the soft dirt. Drew random pictures, played with sandstone, and played Pictionary in the dirt.
6:30 Still light outside! Kids happily playing after a day of herding sheep
May 31st
Up early to plant second corn field. Which is huge compared to the corn field across from the house! Planted until 3:30 PM.
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| See that little blob toward the left? That's Jaxen....just to give you an idea on size. |
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| This is looking to the left...if you could really know the depth. |
Drove into town to the post office.
Prepared dinner.
Kids herded sheep- E rode the horse.
Put apron on Ram. Which wasn't easy because we had to catch him first. This is what sheep "family planning" looks like. A pair of old Levi's tied around the midsection of a ram to prevent....you know...baby making.
7:00 Kids played frisbee with lid until dark
Wash Jaxen and Ember's hair - No running water. Heat water on stove and then use big metal bowls to wash and rinse.
June 1st
Shear 1 1/2 sheep skins - Definitely easier to shear live sheep. It took all day (working alone)!
June 2nd
Drive like a mad woman to Tuba City to miss the appointment I drove crazy to get there for. Grandma able to get later appointment for the same day, so not a total loss.
Go to spring to fill water buckets
Shear the rest of the sheep skin (1 1/2) until 1 AM. Finished shearing in the house...which I have never done before.
June 3rd
Leave for home. Leaving the older two to help Grandma and tend the sheep until the next weekend.
3 comments:
I suppose if you had sheared and butchered the ram first you would have had a much harder time shearing the rest of the sheep. Good plan.
Why would it be harder? I dont get it? oh and is that grandmas butt in first pic? Why you no want more babies? Why you shear by yourself? How is grandma doing? Huh Huh Huh??? I mean Why Why Why???
It technically wouldn't be harder. But, we would have less shearing hands because some people would be butchering. So better to do it after.
Yes, that is her butt.
Don't want too much inbreeding, so the ram gets a go once. Then, two years later, a different ram gets a go. (Giving a lamb enough time to get bigger). Only one "fully functional" ram at a time.
I sheared by myself because everyone else was busy and it needed to get done.
Grandma is fine, older, sorer, comes with age.
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