Is that Placenta in your hair

Yes, folks it is that time again. Lambing is upon us. Time to wonder if you washed your hands after picking up the latest born. Then remember you tried to get that hair out of your mouth with your hands. But hey I hear that people in LA and New York pay good money to put placenta creme on their face. If that is the case then my hands are going to be baby soft.  Yesterday started with a bang. Twins born as the southern Alberta wind started blowing and a dumb mother who failed to dry off her babies. Twins were brought into the house and put under the watchful eyes of our Chi Joe. Of course my camera died yesterday so I only have a bad cell phone pic of the cuteness. At the end of yesterday we had a total of 17 lambs. Nice start. Now we are on a roll nothing came last night or this morning. Boring.
The camera has new batteries now so cute pics to come.

Father, Son, Grandmother

Donnie 4 months old

Gus 4 months

And Grandmother Star

Photo by Christine Koval

A sunny March afternoon

The ladies enjoying the afternoon

Craig update nine months and counting

I really think Facebook has ruined me as a blogger. I post little things here and there on Facebook and then forget all about my blog followers. One of those being my mom and her co workers. Although my mom has stepped into the current century and purchased her very first computer and wait for it "got the internet". Way to go mom.
We are moving into month number 10 since Craig broke his leg. It has been a long and expensive haul. As of mid January Craig was discharged from Physiotherapy and from the care of the orthopedic surgeon. His radius is fully healed thanks to the bone graph. However his ulna is still broken and hopefully in time will heal it's self. Now it is up to me to recondition him and try to bring him back to where he was. Craig goes for weekly underwater treadmill appointments and goes swimming as well. He is by no means sound. He has a pronounced limp. I am hoping in time the limp will go away.

This video is from his first time.

I have also started to take him on free runs by himself. We only go for about 15 minutes but in that time he is aloud to run as much and as fast as he wants. It is very hard for me not to tell him to slow down. After nine plus months of telling him to take it easy. 

Making a ranch dog

Mack is a customer dog that has been here since October. I will be running him in nursery this year. In an effort to make training a little more interesting I have been using him to do farm chores and sorting sheep for lessons. This week after some snow we needed to feed sheep. We have increase our flock tremendously this year. We currently have 120 yearling ewe lambs and 50 bred ewes. This weeks task was hold the sheep of the feeders so Justice could get the bales into the feeders without being ran over by sheep. Or sheep getting run over by the tractor.

Meg is also the helper. Although small problem working Mack and Meg together I am regularly telling Mack to lie down and Meg thinks I am talking to her. Their names sound too much the same.

Here is the obligatory Guardian dog picture.

Next the ewes. We just bought a flock of pure bred Katahdins that have never been moved by a dog. Mack handled them like a pro.

Auditioning a new friend

In the past I have had no luck with Guardian dogs. Luckily now we have Bear and he is super. Just turned two and hitting his stride. With our sheep numbers now over two hundred Bear is needing some help. Raising a puppy just takes too long. We are currently auditioning a new friend for Bear.

Hannah is an 18 month old Maremma. She came from a farm not far from here where they had sold all their sheep and needed to re-home all their dogs.

She is still learning the ropes. Only been here a month now.

Bear and her are getting along good.

Ode to a sunset

Sunrises are highly over rated
They also involve me getting up very early. Over the last couple of weeks I took pictures of the sun set.

Some pictures with my camera and some with my iphone.

Those are what we call wind clouds over the mountains.

I also took these cool fog pictures the other day.