Brandy Update and Other Stuff

Good afternoon folks!

Welcome new subscribers!  Pull up a bucket and visit with the sheep!  They don’t bite much.

First and foremost, Brandy seems to have fully recovered from the scare she gave us last week.  She is back to her mare attitudinal normal-ness.  Miss Sassy Pants is doing her daily eat drink sleep stuff. 

If you missed it, here is a link to last week’s post about Miss Brandy

As for Miss Lucy, she is still getting those wads in her mouth.  I believe the last of her back teeth have vacated her gums, and thus, she can’t get the hay chewed into small enough bits to swallow down to her rumen.  So far we have pulled out about a dozen wads in the past week.  The joys of geriatric sheep. She keeps chugging along though!

Michael is going to see if the local feed store has bags of pre chopped hay that she can manage.  2-3” pieces will be much better than 10” long strands of grass hay.  It will still give her the dry food component her sheepie body needs.  If they don’t have it at the store, then I will be looking for a way to break up the existing hay I do have. 

The garden has exploded this week.  It’s not much of a garden, but what is growing kicked it into overdrive.  We have a sad lack of pollinators in the area, so the pumpkins and cucumbers are being had pollinated every morning.  I must have atleast 30 pumpkins now, ranging in size from softballs to marbles.  The cukes just started making female flowers and I got a few of them this morning.  Michael’s watermelons have 6 good sized ones growing and two smaller ones starting.  He is thrilled to see that!

One week until Glenrock Sheepherders Rendezvous!   I have 11 fleeces ready to go for that plus a bunch of knit items I’m hoping will sell. 

I’m also having the my-stuff-is-not-good-enough-to-sell jitters.  Ugh!  I really don’t want to get there and make a fool out of myself.  I’ve seen the quality of some of the other vendors.  Fingers crossed I measure up!

I’ll be posting next week from the Rendezvous with lots of cool pictures of sheep wagons and all the other going’s on. 

Until then, Blessed Be!