Bleary-eyed but here…

The perk benefit of staying up all night with ewes in labor?  Enjoying a gorgeous Montana sunrise…

 

Victoria with her new ewe lamb, Gypsy.

Lots of watching, waiting and coffee…

Gypsy

Black sheep of the family.

Carly’s lamb pile-up!

Garrett getting a little snuggle…

Another pile-up!

Going strong!

Momma, I found this comfy, warm bed just for me!

Going for a ride and getting weighed in the bag.

Jug crawler…

Never off duty…

Wait for me mommy…

Beautiful badgerfaced ewe lamb.

Lamb kisses.

Handsome Gotland/Icelandic cross.

Stare down.

Hide out.

Is she gone?

Lamb love!

Gia and her momma.

Pregnant…

Freckles

Run, jump and play!

Sunning himself.

Love his smile!

Tiny set of twins.

 

 

 

Flashy boys.

 

Lots of stormy skies lately…

 

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Weekend Happenings…

Outside on the farm…

Dugur

Thor

Bellah

Watering can frozen…

Feeding time…

Thor watching…

Chicken scratching…

Gunnar…

A perfect arrow!  Chicken Track…

Dugur’s sweet face…

Some happens inside…

I was able to skirt quite a few fleeces.

My helper, Mr Zesty…

A little color inside…

African Violet blooming…

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Keeping Critters Warm…

 

Brrrrrrrrr, we are still having some seriously cold weather.  This was the weather report from this morning…

Our water was froze up and it was freezing in our house but outside the sheep didn’t seem to mind too much…

 

Good thing they are hardy Icelandic’s!  This week they’ve been getting extra hay and always have access to the barn and sheds…

The chickens don’t seem to care for it at all though…

Good thing there are lots warm sheep taxi’s to keep them warm!

 

BTW, our water is going again and we should be starting to warm back up!  Oh ya, we should start lambing any day now, hurry up warmer weather…

 

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Falling…

Everyone seems to be enjoying the snowy weather we’ve had.

The sheep and dogs seem to do better in the cold than in the heat, which especially make sense with our Icelandic sheep.

Tori walking back to the house from feeding and watering her horse.

Kletta, Tori’s Icelandic Sheepdog really enjoys the snow.

Hazel.

Part of the flock…

Despite having a nice warm, straw lined barn to snuggle in, Dugur prefers to hang out with the sheep.

Snow kisses anyone?

Audrad and Aubrey bedded down in the snow…

Gunnar, our other Icelandic Sheepdog hanging out in the snow…

White on white…

Breakfast!

Same thing with Thor, he found out in the pasture rather than in the straw filled sheds he shares with the rams.

Whatcha looking for Kletta?

We are suppose to be getting more snow later on this week!  We shall see.

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It warmed up this week and snowed….

Lots!!

I would much rather deal with the snow than the bitter cold.

 

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Sheep…

We’ve been having a lot of foggy, pea-soupish mornings this past week.

We’ve also put our breeding groups together and can expect to start lambing at a much earlier date than this past spring.

Espen

Eran

Elly

Echo and Ewecalyptus

Espen handing out kisses…

Drifa

Evening…

Freckles

Danika

Chesapeake

Eira

Edge’s group of ladies…

Edge

The elderly group with Bacchus

Bacchus with Druna

We’ve also had some beautiful fall sunsets this past week.

Thor keeping an eye on everything

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The lambs and sheep are looking wonderful!  Their fleeces have grown all summer long….

The rams fleeces even look exceptional this year!

They are even feeling a bit ramish, those hormones are changing as we creep closer to the end of October.

Thankfully, Brandon was available to shear this last weekend and did a wonderful job!

Some more of the shearing crew…

Jason, my brother-in-law, even sheared a bit.  He’s shearing my favorite fleece here…

All business…

A happy Dugur dog…

A pretty mouflon…

 

Two rams getting reacquainted after loosing their fleeces.

They don’t seem to really recognize each other and will fight reestablish the pecking order.  Boys!

What a job!  It took the whole weekend but all sheep came out of beautiful and now I have a ton of fleece to sort through!  Any helpers?

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The Dogs Life…

Kletta

Kletta snuggled up…

Gunnar…

Thor…

Bellah…

 

Frank and his problem…

Dugur, chic watching…

 

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Doing the rounds…

 

Emma has loved being my little helper!  She makes sure all the lambies get their daily dose of loving!

 

Even Thor gets to enjoy her loving…

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