This and That

Hello dear readers, and welcome to the new folks. I am glad to have you visiting the farm. The sheepies are all looking forward to nibbling your fingers today.

I am struggling trying to write this past week. Everything comes out mind numbingly boring or filled with self-absorbed pity. There hasn’t been any good middle ground here for me.

So I’m trying again here today and I hope it comes out better.

Things are so vastly different around here after the losses of my furbabies. Chores take much less time now, and I miss my Tally shadow as I move around the yard.

No Brandy yelling at me to hurry up and feed her, cus I am, you know, just too slow for her approval.

The naughties did stage and escape, I would like to think they did it to honor their fearless leader Aife.

Poor Leo, Brandy’s boyfriend, has been moping around looking for her. He stays with the flock, but not “with” the flock if that makes any sense to you. He is also coming up to me for attention more than he has since he was a lamb.

Lots of change, and honestly, I hate change.

I haven’t been doing much except going to work or just being home. No baking, basic cooking just to eat, no knitting. Pretty much licking my wounds as it were.

The preps for shearing have started. The biggest item we had to tackle was redoing the entire barn floor. Brandy, with her nighttime barn wandering tore up the hard pack we had and left big holes from pacing. Thankfully we have a wonderful neighbor who let us borrow his skid steer and over the course of two days we were able to redo the whole thing with bentonite off the side of our property. I would have preferred sand, but that costs money. As of now, all the holes are filled in and the floor is level. Over time it will pack down more. As it was, there was no way I would be able to breath in there with the dust from shearing.

We also dusted out the tack room and put that all back together. Thanks to the boy child it allowed me to stay outside and basically watch. Ok, I cleaned out the stock tanks while he did it, so I was not entirely useless.

As a thank you to our wonderful neighbors I made them a big batch of focaccia bread and brought it over while it was still warm.

Here’s my recipe for focaccia…I’m going to play with the new recipe thingy we have on here, wish me luck I do it right.

I can’t begin to tell you how good my kitchen smelled! Herb-ie, yeast-ie, chees-ie, just delicious!

For the herb’s I add to the flour and sprinkle on top I use this Dean Jacobs Jumbo Grinder-Bread Dipping Seasonings from Amazon. This stuff is great on roast chicken, garlic bread, focaccia, you name it. It’s one of my favorites.

(pssst Amazon, still waiting on the love!)

Caught these two boogers on my game camera. The truce here still holds! We have been hearing a lot of them around again. Not to mention the mountain lion that was seen wandering around the area. So far the sheep are safe! Rumor has it the lion did kill someone’s horse, which just breaks my heart. We still suspect it was behind our barn just over a week ago.

Ignore the date/time stamp on the picture. My cameras will not keep the correct information anymore.

Well, that’s pretty much it for me at the moment. I hope you all have a wonderful week, and kiss your loved ones and furbabies!

Blessed Be!

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