A Blip on the Radar: August 2017

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Are YOU ready?

Yes, the "Great American Eclipse" - coming up on Monday and I'm ready. Got my official solar shades and my observing guide - ap's on my tablet and King 5 will be broadcasting all morning. And I decided not to even try to pretend that I was working on Monday morning, I took some vacation hours so I could stay home and see the real deal.

What are YOU going do be doing?

Meanwhile, out in the pasture

Did anyone see what happened to the month of July? The lambs are bigger, the pasture is browner, but I sure don't remember the days going by...

I think part of it was the smoke. About mid month, there were fires burning up north in BC. The smoke, however, doesn't respect borders and soon our skies were filled with dirty brown haze.

Not only making it hard to see, but hard to breath as well. Happily it rained last weekend and the skies cleared.

The Shepherd has been working on socializing his crew of lambs. They are coming along quite nicely. Next is halter training. That is always fun to watch - (not for The Shepherd, however) Most of the time they will do the "flop" until they get used to having that weird thing around their nose. He is taking them to Fiber Fusion in the fall and needs to have them halter ready to show.

Here's Mr. Jefferson, looking Oh so Regal, and proud. His fleece won blue ribbons at the NW Washington Fair in Lynden this past week.

It is hard to believe that he is not even a year and a half old. He's probably one of the nicest rams we've had, temperament wise - his mom Jennie did a good job when he was a baby.

This is "Number One Son" (what can I say, that's what he calls him) He's looking for a new home where he can have his own flock of girls, since his dad has the job here all sewed up...

Some of the older girls, looking as brown as their pasture. You can see the haze in the air - these pictures were taken during the time of the BC fires.