Snow on October 12, 2009

I woke up to all of this snow this morning and it is still snowing 4 1/2 hours later. It just won't stop.

This is the snow out in back of the house on a rock that is part of our retaining wall.

This is where the snow really looks out of place. On green leaves!!

It also doesn't look right on these yellow leaves of our birch tree.

Cash did a look back

I am so excited as Cash did a look back for me this evening. He is a very strong eyed dog and has been giving me some trouble trying to teach a look back. Tonight as we were bringing the sheep from grazing back to the yard for the night I wanted to work him a bit. I let the sheep go down to the barn. I then sent Cash on a right handed outrun. He flanked out very nicely and started to come in. I gave him another away flank and he kicked out as far as he could. Once he picked them up a few were left behind. I told him, look back, he looked towards those sheep and back the main packet. When I had told him to look back a 3rd time, he looked at the second group long enough for me to give him an away flank and he took it!! I am so excited that he did that!! It has been difficult as being he is so strong eyed that he locks in on the main group of sheep and won't acknowledge the second group.

I also worked him on coming thru the sheep to start the shed. Another difficult task for him being strong eyed and because I have had to work hard with him to flank out all the way and keep his sheep together. I did manage to get the sheep separated out enough to have two successful call throughs and I left it at that. All in all, a good quick training session.

Sting turned five months old

Here is Sting at five months.
He wants to know when he gets to start working sheep.

Come on, are you sure I can't work sheep.

Hey, who goes there??

Two weeks post-op doctor visit

I just had my two week follow up appt this morning. The doctor said that I am healing up perfectly!! Good news. No pain in my lower abdomen. He said that I still have to stick with my restrictions but that I can start doing some light stuff. I go back in four weeks for the final follow up and then I should be good to go. I sure am glad that I had this hysterectomy done as I am feeling so much better.

New ram for the next two years

This is our new ram who arrived early afternoon on Saturday. We had used our previous ram for two years and he needed to move on as we couldn't breed him to his daughters. He moved to northern Minnesota in late spring in exchange for a ram lamb. We had also made arrangements to exchange one of our ram lambs for this guy. So we are set for rams for the next four years.

It will be interesting to see what colors he will produce. We'll see if he can produce tri-colors with our ewes.

He does think that he is a handsome dude. Corbie was the one who got to bring him down to the ram field and she thought that he was one big sheep.