telling on our family, sheep groups, and friends
Once upon a time and long ago, 14 summers ago as best we can remember, a scrawny local teenager not yet old enough to drive began working on our farm, eventually becoming our full-time, resident ranch hand. It ended yesterday when that same young man, now 29 years old, married and the father of our […]
I just realized Emmett — our ram who illustrates the physical changes in rut so well — will be cycling off the front page the next time I put up something about lambing. Before he disappears into the annals of blog history, I wanted to share one more photo of him … well, not really […]
One of the joys of raising rare little sheep is the seemingly endless stream of “can you believe this?” stories. Just before the holidays, we received an e-mail from a fellow breeder, Mike Reid from northern Oregon, with the latest. Mike tells the story first-hand: I don’t know what to make of it, but it […]