Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

This is another of those "just because" they are cute pictures. I was trying to get a picture with perspective of Maisy and the 1st lamb and the little thing decided to do one of those vertical jumps they do.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Great Pic!!....is Maisy doing better after the Excitement has settled a bit?

 

[Mike CHS]

She is doing better but we won't let her loose unsupervised when the lambs are out. We take her around the lambs several times a day on a lunge line and she hasn't tried to play basketball with the lambs for a couple of days now. She is still fairly young to expect "instant" performance so we don't. We are patient with her and she is super smart so it will work out when it does.

 

[CntryBoy777]

It is always promising when ya can see 'Progress'...and allows ya to be more patient with them....gets 'Frustrating' when there isn't noticeable progress...and being young does require a bit more time....sounds like things are going really well for ya over there...any others really close to 'Surprising' ya?

 

[Mike CHS]

All 8 of the others have some degree of bagging up but only two are swelling up quite a bit. Those 2 unfortunately are the wildest so we can't bring them into confinement for their own good (they are the reason we are building another shelter). They are also the biggest of the bunch (about 150 lbs) so they can do a lot of damage when startled.

 

[CntryBoy777]

May be they will settle down when they get Closer....the way Ewe-nique did for Bay....

 

[Bruce]

Way to luck into a great action shot Mike!

 

[Mike CHS]

We got our other lean-to roughed in today. We had hoped to get it done yesterday but I didn't feel like working in the rain. We will head into town first thing in the morning to pick up the siding and metal roofing so we can split the flock up at night time without having to worry about a lamb getting crushed by these wild things. They are getting better but the two biggest are super wild and I can see them killing a lamb by accident.

Besides our Farm Supply dealer had their annual Christmas Eve get together. They do that as a Customer Appreciation day and slow cooked 32 large pork shoulders. They even had a bunch of local amateur musicians in from about 10 - 12 O'clock.

Teresa made a couple of sweet potato pies with a pecan sauce on top that disappeared in about 10 minutes.

The lamb picture and Maisy are some "just because" they are cute pictures. Maisy does one of those "I Love You" looks when she wants some petting and usually gets it.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Great Work!! There Mike....Love the Lamb in this dish, so Cute!!...not that the others and Mommas aren't...and Maisy looks like she is going to be a Really Good addition for ya...such a Sweetie!!....tho, if ya keep having ewe lambs over there ya may need at least 4 of those Lean Tos....

 

[Mike CHS]

@CntryBoy777 we have a 15x32 at the end of our shop but we can't use it till we get the fence done in that section. The 'to-do' list hasn't gotten small enough to work on that section yet.