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| Four fleeces, one box. Abracadabra.... |
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| Full to bursting, but sealed and ready to ship! |
Fleece harvest is done for another year. I sheared Bittersweet on Sunday; he's so thin that I couldn't bear to take a picture of him. I picked up some supplemental feed for him today, and will worm him (and the other boys) as well; hopefully that will help him regain condition. (I guess I should take a photo so I have a baseline visual.) Yesterday I rooed Sarai, which was as long an ordeal as shearing. Her fleece did not have a good 'break' to easily roo her but enough of a break over most of her body that if I had sheared her, her fiber would have had a tender spot, making it practically worthless. So I persevered, apologizing repeatedly for the uncomfortable tugging, and then used scissors over her shoulders and neck where the fleece wasn't at all loose. She had quite a bit of new growth; next year it would be best to catch her before the rise and just scissor-shear her. Someone remind me!
The neighbors' new house is going up fast, a dominant feature to our north. They are such nice people but I still wish Rick had agreed to let me plant trees along our view line years ago when I asked . . . or even now.
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| The morning of May 27 |
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| This morning, June 4 |
Tuesday evening Poppy got to go over to play with Toby and I got a tour of the house-in-progress. Neighbors from the other end of our lane walked by with their dog, a beautiful young black tri-color Springer spaniel, and Toby's owner invited them in to let their dog play with the terriers. I think Milo was initially a bit 'terrier-ized,' but soon all three of them were romping happily.
I do worry about Poppy's leg. Rick is surprised that she is still having trouble with it. When she first gets up in the morning, or starts moving after a nap, she limps a lot. After playing hard with another dog(s), she limps more than at the start. Rick hasn't sealed the stock tank yet so I can't make her swim, and I don't want to give her potentially harmful drugs. Today I did order some turmeric supplements to see if that helps her. That bum leg doesn't really slow her down, though. She and my new mare both have more energy than I can cope with sometimes....
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| "Catch me if you can!" |
Brian graduates on Sunday. It is a drive-in, invitation-only affair, followed by a drive-through, open-to-all 'reception.' He has one more final tomorrow, plus his open-book Pre-Calculus final to finish. On top of that he's pulling an all-nighter trying to finish his senior project for Physics, which he chose at the beginning of the year and started constructing less than 24 hours before it's due. At this point it's not even a given that he'll pass all his classes. Such has been his entire high school journey, in spite of us giving 'carrots,' 'sticks,' and everything in between that we could think of. It's kinda hard to celebrate (and I'm sure contributes to my lack of coping with other lively young creatures). College (especially taking engineering!) is likely to be a rude awakening....
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| Last bearded iris standing (with a yellow bud in the background) |
Outside it looks like summer. We got a call from our hay guy; he has 500 bales of good horse hay put up. We don't need that much with what we have left, but we'll probably be hauling ten tons in the next week or two (maybe even on our 36th anniversary!). I've got to pick strawberries tomorrow morning; I may not have time to get much else done with various graduation 'stuff' going on.
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| Poppy's first strawberry |
That's it for today from . . .
8 comments:
A post full of interest, as usual. Watch out for teaching Poppy how good strawberries are! A friend of ours had a Chocolate Lab that devoured any fruit and/or vegetable she could get her jaws on if she gained access to the garden. Her favorites were blueberries, strawberries and peas right off the vine!
Loved the picture of young energetic horse. She shows beauty and grace even in still pictures!!
Yep, lots going on around your house. Sorry Poppy's leg hasn't healed like you wanted. Hope it improves with the tumeric. Take care
Very nice pictures, etc! Very enjoyable reading!
My mini Schnauzer loved going huckleberry picking with us! If I dropped one, I'd show it to her and she'd snarf it up! I made the mistake of showing them to her on the bush and then she started picking her own! So cute watching it. She would actually look cross eyed as she got close to them! The bad part was that she would get an upset stomach from the acid. So I started taking dog biscuits along, which took care of the problem!
The pics of Poppy and her strawberry are adorable! I'm sorry about her limping. How long has it been since the injury?
I didn't think she could get in the garden, Mama Pea, but the other day she proved she could – and walked through the strawberry patch! We had a bulldog years ago that was as bad as a raccoon for pulling down and eating sweet corn, and a Doberman who would pick and eat zucchini....
She is a hot tamale, Elaine!
Thanks, Sue; I do hope the turmeric helps.
Jeanne, she was stepped on 17 weeks ago tomorrow.
I hear you - Brian is apt to be in for a shock when he starts college. He will have to self-motivate! I could look at pictures of Poppy for hours - she's so photogenic. None of my dogs ever liked fruit, but I used to have an Irish setter that loved grapefruit! We are of a like mind - I'd rather look at a tree line, than a house, no matter how nice the neighbors are. Hope you can keep up with everything (and how did you manage to get all that fleece in the one box!!!???)
Somehow I thought I already commented :-D Glad that the Popper is having some fun and socializing with other dogs. I hope her foot begins to get stronger soon. Love the photo of Stella :-) And oh yeah . . . Brian will likely have a very rude awakening when he gets to college if he didn't really learn how to study in high school. I girl I knew back when I was in college had been top of her class in high school but never learned to truly study - she was on academic probation within a semester and really had to focus. I hope Brian can get his act together - and I hope he graduates!
Susan, Rick gives her a frozen berry (usually blueberry but occasionally a boysen or marionberry) as he's getting some out for her breakfast cereal every morning, and she LOVES bananas. But unlike her predecessors, she actually chews things up and tastes them, rather than gulping it down in one quick swallow. Keep up with everything??? HA; never going to happen!!!
Well, he managed to graduate, A. He is a master of procrastination, which will not work in a program as intensive as engineering. We'll see how he does!
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