Happy St. Patrick's Day!

"May your paths bloom with shamrocks, and your heart ring with songs, and the sky smile with bright sunshine all this happy day long." 

Oh, what a beautiful hot day we have had today.  Unseasonably hot for March.  78 degrees, grass is green, robins, red wing blackbirds, buzzards have all been spotted.  I planted radishes, lettuce, and onions 2 days ago.   We did not drink any green beer or have corn beef and cabbage today.  I didn't pinch Danny for not wearing green. 

My husband's mother's maiden name was Amanda Francis O'Bryan, don't get much more Irish than that.  She came from Kentucky and spoke often of her Smoky Mountains.  Her father was an Irish boxer.  She told many stories about growing up without her mother and being raised by a couple or three step mothers.  Her mother had died when she was a little girl and her father had to work so he would marry a woman to step up and help him raise his children.  

I might add that my mother in law did have a hot temper and a sharp tongue.  She also had  red brown hair.definitely an Irish Lass.  

    

 

How did you celebrate St. Pat's Day?  

I cleaned and vacuumed the house this morning, and worked on taxes this afternoon...I dread doing the taxes every year.  I had entered feed bills up till June and things went to pot after that.  So I now have all expenses in the computer, I need to add all the columns to share with the tax guy.  I am really thinking about getting a Neat desk scanner.  Would I use it?...Is it as good a scanner and software program as they say it is?  I don't know but I am going to read the reviews.  

I have been wanting a Samsung 10.1 Tablet, today Danny ordered me one.  I am so excited.  He spoils me and I am very blessed.  In all things I praise God.

working on the taxes...papers everywhere!

I love the early morning fog that rolls through the valleys here in North Missouri.   One morning this week I was going out the door to work and came back in to get my camera and take some more pics of the fog.  

Gerty and her daughter Bonnie Blue.  I had to get some pictures today...we shear next  Saturday.   As warm as it was today and by the looks of this long wool...the flock will appreciate a good hair cut.

Cinnamon, old shetland ewe with Lady posing for the camera.

the long wool being blown by the wind.

Liam's BFL wool...it is really very fine.

White Knight is getting old but he has passed on some good wool.

Gerty's wool is about 7 1/2 inches long.

I am really ready to shear and start washing wool again.

 

May the road rise to meet you,

May the wind be always at your back,

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

The rains fall soft upon your fields and,

Until we meet again,

May God hold you in the palm of His hand. 

The Sun is Shining and Spring is here in March

Lady wants to cool off in the March heat.  70 degrees in March...green grass, Spring frogs.

Sadie stays close to the flock but she is not running and playing.  Both dogs have very thick coats and love the cold weather.  

Teddy ask for me to move up the date for the shearer to come and help him get out of his heavy wool coat.

How is this for a coat,  this mule ewe lamb is too busy picking at the short green grass in the pen to notice the heat.

This is one of my favorite sheep pictures of all the flock.  This is Smokin's baby  picture.  He went on to be a ram in someone  else's flock.

Lilly and Smokin's baby pictures.  I loved both of these babies and spent alots of time with both of them.  They were twins and both loved human's from day one.  These 2 little shetlands were bouncing around in the first hour after being born.  They were small and could get in the other ewe's pens and pick on their new babies...they kept the barn going the Spring they were born.   They also were run stiff legged from one end of the barn to the other and seemed to sense when I would be coming in the barn...they would come hopping at me and helped me feed and water all the other pens.  Most of the time, causing trouble with the other new moms and they never minded their own mother, they kept her a nervous wreck!

Enjoying the Sunshine

We got rain last night and we do have some mud.  It was cloudy most of the day and then late afternoon, the SUN CAME OUT!
I came home from work and hurried back out the door to enjoy the sunshine and the animals.  First I checked the cows, no new calf but it will be soon.  Then out to see the wind damage before going on to see the sheep.

Jared our neighbor, pulled into the driveway.  He is moving hay for his cattle with his horses.  Aren't the boys pretty?

You know I have been looking for a registered BFL Ewe or two that would go along with Liam.  I have sent out many emails and phone calls in my search for Liam's girls.

Liam, BFL Ram

His papers have many top BFL breeders.  Now finding the perfect girls for him.  I love to research the bloodlines and characteristics of the different bloodlines and trying to come up with  a breeding program that keeps improving my flock.

I have to keep the numbers down on the flock so that I don't stay worn out all of the time.  This is not going to be easy!

I have to get back to working on the income taxes...don't judge me, please....I hate this task, always afraid that I will forget something and I hate to sit at a desk working on paperwork when that is all I do all the time.