Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival

[Alice Acres]

That is a lot ....a LOT...of poinsettias. Did I miss it - why do you have 100 of them?
I would never have the space to do that display, but I like it!

 

[CocoNUT]

Ok Bridge - your house is SPOTLESS! Seriously! I don't know if there is a cat-fur free area of my house for a single photo! Nevermind the bunnies! (love the poinsettia tree BTW!)

I don't know about where YOU are...but it's SNOWING to beat the band here! We've got about 3 INCHES! DD decided she wanted Wendy's for lunch...so out we went...made it over the mountain...but came back the back way (valley) so no mountains again. It's GORGEOUS! I'm getting my WHITE Christmas! Yay!

oh yeah...Snuggles is in the barn...in her own little run too. Poor thing.

Been spinning like a mad woman...I've got two bobbins done..now I'm off to ply them! WOOOO HOOOOO!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE EVERYONE!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Ha ha Alice, you need to backtrack a few posts. Basically, Tim buys what the nursery can't sell for $1.00 a piece every year. Then he hands them all out to friends and neighbors. Besides the tree, we're down to about 20! Yay!

COco...Thanks for the compliments on the clean house. I assure you though, it's JUST THAT ONE SPOT, lol, and it's already messed up! I had just cleaned it up and mopped the floor, that's why I was able to even take a picture.

And YES it's been snowing ALL afternoon! It's definitely going to be a WHITE Christmas!

Oh, but things have gotten really bad on our road. There are cars stuck all over the place. We live on a sharp curve, and the road goes down and over a little bridge over our creek. There are people stranded and stuck all over in front of our house. Tim helped some girl get out of a ditch, and she's sitting in our driveway now waiting for her husband and dad to get her home. Another lady wrecked her car. And yet another lady, who we told not to go down the hill, insisted and crashed into the other lady's car. OMG. Tim is going to get the tractor now, it's already dark and still snowing, and he is going to haul somebody out of the ditch down by the bridge. I put up an orange cone at the top by our driveway, and opened the gates so people could get through. But, they still wanna try to go down that hill.

The chickens were all confused by the snow believe it or not and couldn't find their way home. I had to help the littlest ones back to the coop.

But in spite of all the trouble, I HAVE THIS FOR CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas everyone!

P.S. Snuggles seriously needs a sheep friend! I've got one or two for ya

 

[Alice Acres]

Great snow picture!

And thanks for the "rest of the story".....

 

[bonbean01]

Love the photo

You may end up with a whole bunch of people staying at your house tonight that are stuck and or stranded...happened often when I lived in Canada.

Merry Christmas to you and yours

 

[CocoNUT]

Beautiful!
People are being kinda foolish around here too Bridge! There's a van of the shoulder in the ditch up the road from our house. Had to be going too fast cause we didn't eat it when we'd driven that way earlier. There were trucks stuck in ditches, people parked IN the middle of the road who'd decided they weren't goign to try and go DOWN the mountain..but were too selfish to MOVE OUT OF THE WAY for people who were...so other people were having to drive aroudn them, into ONCOMING traffic! WVDOT finally got the trucks out...didnt' do much good though.

I'm sooo excited we're going to have a white Christmas too. DH's stuck in VA though. Rte 7 was shut down at the bottom of the mountain down by Berryville...so he had to backtrack. Now he's going to try adn get home over rte 9...but he hasn't been on the new bypass...which comes STRAIGHT down the mountain! Hopefully he'll figure it out though...without running out of gas!

I'll take a friend for Snuggles! I'm supposed to be getting a little yearling Icelandic ewe to keep her company in the next few weeks...but three is always such a better number than two isn't it?! Just tell me it's a jacob and I'll be over with bells on! (I've still got those angora bunnies....you know..they use litterboxes and don't smell as much as pigs do!)

I'll have to get some photos of our snow-scene too.
BEAUTIFUL!
Merry Christmas!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Thanks Alice!

Oh, I forgot one thing. The two pregnant does, an alpine and the boer are so bursting, I think they are ready! I luckily got them both together in a stall. So somebody had posted the ligament link today and I was reading up on that. One of the things to tell if they are ready is if they do something weird that they've never done before. Well, the boer was sniffing the air a whole bunch with her lip curled up! I thought that was weird. They both are laying down, but could hardly even lay down because their udders are bursting. I think I will go and check on them later, but doesn't everybody say goats usually deliver in the day? This boer goat is so huge, she has HUGE bulges in her sides, I swear it's gonna be quads.

I hope they don't deliver tomorrow while we are away But at least they are in a stall now.

 

[CocoNUT]

I've heard goats deliver in the middle of the night! You might wanna check on them in the morning before you leave....

 

[Southern by choice]

oh bridge I love that picture...snow and sheep!

Just showed it to my Dh... he's not buying it... you got him (like all of us) on the "felted" jacob lamb that WAS REAL!

So he said, "NOPE.... she's pulling our leg, those are all felted sheep and she is sprinkling confectioners sugar over them..I'm not falling for it!"

That should be next POW!

Maybe the goats will kid tonight, the weather will be toooo bad and you don't have to go anywhere!

MERRY CHRISTMAS BRIDGE!

 

[Alice Acres]

I've heard goats deliver in the middle of the night! You might wanna check on them in the morning before you leave....

And low pressures (like during storms) bring on labor in all mammals too.....so maybe???