Blizzard

Yes that's right we had a Blizzard started on the 24 of December and ended today the 26 of December we have snow drifts that are taller then the dually pickup. It was a lot of fun trying to feed the animals yesterday in the blizzard! we did lose some animals due to the cold wind, it was 2 alpacas but they were rather old so I'm not to surprised we had struggled to keep their weight up since we got them. the lambing season is going well despite the ugly weather. We had the move the bum lambs from the house to the garage due to one lamb named Pig she was always the noisiest one out of them all if you make the slightest noise or walk or any movement at all she would start in crying and would not stop for hours. So hubby had enough of her belle-ring and moved them to the garage on Christmas night. Its funny though my Dad and son and I had to listen to them for a week and half and hubby had all he could handle after 3 days. So he finanally got their box made and they slept in the barn again on Sunday night. It is nice to have my living room back as a living room and not a makeshift nursery. I think I am a holding point in lambing until February when we will start back in which is fine for me now I have my hands full with these guys and tyring to finish the barn and get it ready for the rest of the lambs to come and also do all the daily house chores as well! Ha! Ha! and on top of this I came down with one of the many types of flue's that is floating around this winter. Boy I tell you I sure felt ugly the first day which was yesterday (Sunday) and today I just feel like a mac truck ran me over and decided it was not done with me so it shifted in to reverse and plowed over me again. It's such a wonderful feeling!!! (NOT!) Well I have to go do chores and make some tamales for New Year Eve Dinner.

Busy and Tired

Yup, that right I am a little tired I have started my lambing season already and I am not getting much sleep. I have 2 ewes each with a set of twins and had 10 bum lambs but I lost 4 two nights ago to the bitter cold even with 2 heat lamps and plenty of bedding down in the pen for them. I went out yesterday morning to feed them and that is when I found I had lost 4 of my babies. So I brought the rest into the house. I diapered them and fed them and placed them in the living room by the heater till they warmed up. So I have 6 wonderful little lambs running around the house now with their diapers on it is the cutes thing to see! especially when I tell them it is time to change they all run up to me and wait their turn and then I feed them all. My father started to laugh last night when I was going into the living with the bottles for the babies because all you could see was these little white butts following after me wanting to get fed. It was really quit comical to see. So I have all the bums in the house till hubby gets home so we can work on something in the barn to keep the babies more warm. So I of course I have to name them if they are going to be in the house! Isn't that how it works when you take a poor little animal in the house to take care of them they need a name. So as I sit here typing this out to let you know about my babies I have all 6 of them at my feet under the desk waiting to be fed. I think I missed my true calling in life! And that was to be someone who works with animals. I did not know I had this talent until last year when I had to do the whole lambing season by myself, because hubby got pulled out of state to drill wells. Boy I tell you this city girl was scared spit less last year when my ewes started lambing I thought I could not do it all alone but I stepped back and took a deep breath and waded through all the after birth and helping the ewes with the lambs and even learn some simple vet care thing to do if a lamb gets in trouble. I just wish I had more sheep than what I have so I can quit my job at the gas station and do this full time I do truly enjoy working with all my animals. I do seem to surprise my father on how well I do withe the sheep since I was born and raised in the city in California. Well the wee ones are calling for me so I should get them fed soon and also feed the humans as well!

Lambing Season Started!

Yes that is right it has started! I came home last Friday with a ewe and her twins and one bum-lamb. The twins are doing OK but the little one need some extra milk and the bum lamb we worked on but she did not make it. I am not worried because before long I am going to have some many lambs I won't know what to do with them all and I will probably run out of room in the barn. Which we were finishing up until the snow storm hit this week and put everything to a halt. We have a friend that we get our bum-lambs from and we found out that 3 weeks ago she had a heart attack and won't be able to care for any of the bum-lambs this year so we will have a lot of lambs this season.
I am still working on spinning and am trying my hand a needle felting purses and little bags I have not had any classes in it but am learning from trial and error. I think that is the best way to learn some time then you know what not to do next time you hope. I will work on trying to get some pictures of the bags I have completed on here but these days I am spread a little thin. If only I was actually thin as I am spread ha ha ha ! Mom , I really will try to get the pic's here for you to see OK! This is the first day I have had any time to do any work on the blog or websites in about a month. I have had just about enough time to check if I have any email for the business and that is it. Well I have a ton of things I have get done on my 4 days off this weekend so I better get cracking. I will blog at you later!