SheepGirl's Journal - Photos of the sheep 4/25

[autumnprairie]

It is good to hear from you, you will be great as the photographer, I love all your photos. Happy Birthday I hope you had a great day.
and for your next entry

 

[BrownSheep]

Happy belated birthday to youuuuuuuu! My mom is also a twin! Congrats to your grandparents.

 

[SheepGirl]

Nothing much to report about the sheep. They're all doing good. Everyone's still alive and kicking, lol. Hank and the ram lambs kept going under the fence to get in the field with the ewes. Even when I put up step-in posts. They (well, Hank) would just rip them right out of the ground. The fence really needs to be tightened because they've stretched it out. But I don't have the strength to do it and even though I would ask my dad or my grandfather (and also my uncles when they were up two weekends ago) nobody did it for me So I caved in and bought a cattle panel and put it up. Nobody's escaped yet (knock on wood)!

But that was twenty bucks I shouldn't have spent because I need to pay for college and books and my gas to go to Frederick 2x a week lol. I'll be needing to fill up my tank every week rather than every 1.5-2 weeks. Ughhh lol. I need a better paying job haha. And I need new tires for my car because they're dry rotted Found that out when I took my car in to my friend's shop to get a front end alignment & oil change. Did I mention he did it for free because he loves me Well he actually works as an auto detailer during the day and McD's at night but right next door to that shop is a mechanic and his buddy works there so he detailed his buddy's truck and his buddy did my car for me. When my mom asked me how much it cost and I told her he did it for me for free, my mom said "you know he probably expects something for that" and I was like "he's not getting anything" hahaha. He's also turning 28 in a week lol. But my cousin met me there so we could go shopping afterwards and she hooked up with one of the mechanics I worry about her sometimes. She gets herself in a lot of trouble. I like to think my goody-two-shoes-ness rubs off on her but it doesn't. but that's another story for another day.....

But I'm a full time student this semester so I can keep my military benefits & health insurance. It's going to be so stressful...working full time, going to school full time, taking care of my sheep, having a social life...lol I need to get my priorities straight so I am able to handle all of this successfully. I'm taking Spanish 101, English 101 (did I say I failed it last semester because I messed up my priorities? waste of $400 but it was an expensive lesson learned the hard way), Intro to Anthropology, and Digital Photography. I think it will be a fun semester. I'm confident I will do well in Spanish because I'm around Spanish people all the time at work and they do teach me some Spanish, so I know the basics pretty well. And I already told them they're going to help me with it. They love me and I love them hahaha. They're all really great people. Digital Photography will also be a really fun class. I'm really looking forward to that. English...not so much...but if we read the same things/write the same papers I can always just use what I already wrote Haha. Is that cheating? Maybe not since I wrote it. And Anthropology... satisfies my humanities credit. I don't even really know what Anthropology is haha but it's an online course. Hopefully I don't get distracted by BYH and FB when I'm tyring to do class!

 

[BrownSheep]

It must be that time of year, because our boys won't stay put either. Good luck on your classes. You will learn to hate conjugating in Spanish!

 

[SheepGirl]

It must be that time of year, because our boys won't stay put either. Good luck on your classes. You will learn to hate conjugating in Spanish!

Lol well ever since I put up the cattle panel, they have been staying in the pen! And I remember conjugating in Spanish when I took it back in high school, but that was 4 yrs ago (freshman yr) when I took my last spanish class, Spanish II. So I think it's like the different endings, right? lol Like "I need" is "necessito" instead of "yo necessitar" ?

hahaha I hope you are enjoying your classes!!

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I finished my first week of classes. Still don't have my books so I can't do any of my homework But after putting a down payment for taking 12 credits (I signed up for a payment plan so college takes the money out of my checking account every month), I don't have much money left over and I would rather spend that money on gas and food so I can get to work and then be able to eat so I don't starve. So I asked my parents if they could get my books for me, luckily they said yes I will probably pay them back.

But digital photography should be a fun class. Unfortunately we are learning about the features and everything of the fancy Nikon and Canon cameras, while I'm just sitting there like, yeahhhhh I have a point and shoot camera so this doesn't really apply to me haha. But our first assignment is taking a portrait. So I'm not sure if it has to be of just a person or if it could be of an animal. So I need to send my instructor an email asking him since I didn't have time after class yesterday (I have another class 15 minutes later on the other side of the campus).

And Spanish, my best friend from work is taking it with me She is hilarious, I love her. And our teacher is from Spain and she's very nice. I'm excited, she seems like she's a lot more fun than the other spanish teachers I've had haha.

My other class is English and omigosh there are two other sheep people in that class with me!! They sit across the room from me, though lol. We were doing introductions and the one girl said she has sheep and then it was my turn and I said I raise sheep and then the guy said he has sheep too. I'm so excited lol. And omigosh, I didn't realize how many hot guys are at school during the weekdays before 5 pm Normally I would go to school after 5 pm on the weekdays or on Saturday mornings. And they're my age! lol And one of them I saw walking to my English class and WHAT! he's in my class! lol I'm such a dork. And he sat two seats down from me, but then another girl came and sat in between us. ughh. lol oh well.

And I haven't done anything for my anthropology class yet because I don't have the book yet.

sooooo I think that's all I have to update on

 

[SheepGirl]

I feel terrible. I have been calling my hay guy trying to see if I can purchase hay and he hasnt been returning my calls. So I went on his daughters facebook only to find out he just recently passed away from brain cancer. What a shame. He was such a nice guy and I just saw him the other week, he came through the McDonalds drive thru and ordered a hot mocha.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Wow! So sorry to hear about your hay guy!

 

[jodief100]

So sorry about your hay guy. Our hay guy passed away last winter. Lucky for us he kept good records and the neighbor working his land had his customer list. He was a nice guy. Still working his own fields at 87 years old.

 

[SheepGirl]

I haven't updated this thread in forever!!

But recent new happenings...
* I bought a new ram this past Saturday. He is 1/2 Finnsheep x 1/2 Dorset. He was born Feb 13 of this year and he is already as big as Ciqala. I'm excited to use his daughters in the future. He was the first pregnancy for his dam and she had twins (his dam is a Finnsheep). I'm going to keep in touch with his breeder to see how his dam does in terms of lambing rate. However she is pregnant again, but I didn't ask when she's due, though she looked 3-4 months bred already. His name is Valentine but I'm calling him Valentino... but I want to think of a different name for him since Ali's 'real' name is Valentine.

* We are also getting a barn! We went to Horizon Structures in PA and we customized a barn and it should be here in a month or two... so that's exciting. Unfortunately my parents wanted a barn that could easily convert to horses should we ever move to help the value of our home. But my parents let me do most of the designing so I could determine the functionality of it for a sheep barn. However I'm still in the let-me-see-how-exactly-I-want-to-raise-my-sheep-every-year stage so what I want this year may not work next year, lol. Like I have a stall I'm going to use for the rams, but I'm going to put up a partition so I can put another pen in there and then there's an open area for the ewes and then there's a storage room that comes with a floor but I can put lambing jugs in there if need be. Either way I'm pretty excited to finally have a solid roof over my sheep's heads with a floor that won't flood and get all muddy for them.

Annnnddd I think that's about it.

 

[BrownSheep]

Thats exciting! That's one of the things I want but will never get.

You cold call hime Valence. Close-ish to Valentine but masculine.