The Mountain Bluebirds have arrived and with it so has spring! On Sunday after church the kids along with their father built some bluebird boxes to put up around the farm. Hopefully they will help entice more bluebirds to nest and hang around for the summer… 
Their finished boxes!
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It’s always a busy time of the year when the kids pick out their fair lambs in April. The next 4 1/2 months are busy spent training, walking, washing, shearing, their lambs. This year they went to a 3 day camp in Bozeman to learn more about showmanship, lamb care, shearing with a jackpot on the last day. 
Kids walking their lambs…
Garrett shearing his own lamb…
Garrett helping some kids with showmanship…
Getting ready for fair…
Thank goodness for grandmas who will stop and feed the starving kids on her way home from work. The first couple days of fair are extremely busy and we generally eat really late but grammy had pity on us and fed us.
Practicing with his lamb…
Then show day!
Waiting for his turn to show…
This year at fair they worked very hard and Garrett and Hayden ended up being in the final round for showmanship
Even, Teigen did very well in showmanship for his first year.
Waiting for the “market” portion of fair.
Hayden even won a purple ribbon in market placing in the top 8 out of 60 lambs for market. 🙂
Then comes the last day of fair, the last day of the project. They have sold their lambs to local businesses and they have to load their lambs up on the trailer that is headed to the processor. There are generally lots of tears and sadness but the kids understand where their food comes from and have a deeper appreciation because of it. Something that is lacking in todays culture..
We had a bit of a windy day yesterday and this little girl wanted to fly a kite and since we don’t have any kites she made the best of her situation and found a plastic sack and a string…
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Hours of entertainment! 🙂
Crazy Thelma had a little ram…
The boys are trying out their bows that their big brother made them out of limbs…
More Lamb Love…
Heart standing on a very pregnant Mona…
Hayden working with his lamb…
Tori getting some snuggles…
Garrett checking out the hens…
Frosty, our bottle lamb from two years ago has really grown into a nice ewe and is expecting lambs of her own this spring…
Dugur, always watching…
Our Copper Maran rooster, who has surprisingly been a real gentleman…
Our tough Espen Ram
One of our Gotland/Icelandic crosses, she has some great growth on her and an interesting fleece…
Miss Freckles…
Miss Fawn…
Beautiful Fregna… can’t wait to see lambs from these girls…
And Mona finally lambed, a sweet little black ewe. That ends our pre-run on the Suffolks and we’ll start lambing in ernest in April….busy times ahead!! 🙂
Near Newport, Oregon at the end of October…
There were even a few seals hanging around…
A few of the other sights…
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Last night we had pouring rain and 40 degrees, sometime in the night it changed to snow and wind. This morning it was brisk -30 degrees Fahrenheit! I don’t mind the cold or snow but sure get hard on critters when we have wet conditions and then gets really cold. I was happy to see every one fared the night alright and were anxiously awaiting breakfast this morning…
Teigen feeding Thor…
Even though he has a cozy little place to hide out in, Thor has to hang out with his guys…
Horse raspberries…
Waiting for breakfast…
Frank’s a bit frosty too…
Hayden giving Frank some love…
Hauling bales…
At least some one is happy outside…
The sun even tried to break through…
The kids found several of these little frogs in a lake we visited this summer. They had so much fun trying to spot them in the water among the rocks and found over 10 separate frogs….
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Building sand creations and running from waves…
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