Broke my code...

I broke down and sprayed weeds this morning.

Two tank fulls in the backpack sprayer.

I have held out as long as possible however I am only one person.
If I had help but that's another story in itself.

The constant rain, no cattle, no hogs, only sheep combine for a lot of open fields and gobs of weeds.

Thistles, inkberries, ragweeds, wild cheeries are popping everywhere.

I broke down.

Yep it's poison but they will be thinned down.

Come fall I'll have plenty of breed sheep to eat it down but not now with show string.

They are confined to keep their fleeces in show condition.

The older ewes are sparse as we rebuild from crossbreds to pure with one out for breeding also.

Off to NC...

Hope I see brown dead stuff when I return although this kind seems to 

take a week to show when my son sprays it.

Interesting spring/early summer...

After about 10 days of rain we finally had a dry day followed by another rain day then a sun day.

Finally dried enough to hang laundry and mow yard.

Ugh it was so thick and wet.

I'm not a fanatic mower so it is good enough for me.

If ya don't like it come mow it better ;~}`

I have been busy with this nugget.

We have 5 kittens about a month old now.

Miss A is a terror to them, always petting and holding them to their dismay.

She will climb in the dog cage they were born in on the porch and never leave.

Also busy with this nugget.

Home for the summer and showing her market lambs at the county livestock show.

It rained heavily Friday when we hauled them down, unloaded tack, set up and 

again on Saturday at the show.

She starts her summer internship tomorrow.

Welcome to adulting LN.

This week Miss A brought a kitten inside and watched cartoons with her and her juice.

I asked her Mom to pull some "I am at Grandma's and always dirty clothes".

We just about ruined these tights crawling through the dog crate and sheep pen.

I just can not handle this sassy pants.

Her look is her Daddy's.

Lord help us all!

They are moving and fixing up a house that hasn't been occupied in a few years.

It is daunting but he will get there.

More space and a step up when done.

He's always climbing.

Not every kid needs to go to college however if they do not they better be

as hardworking as he is.

He will live as good as if not better than college graduates because of his work ethic and ambition.

Proud of my kid.

Still hope he gets a dose of karma when Miss A turns out to be like him!!!

Not much to say otherwise...

Headed to NC to help a friend move this weekend.

Girls road trip...

Sheep, ETC

LN is done with her first year of college.

Her friend and I took her sheep over to MD Sheep and Wool Festival Thursday night 

of first weekend in May.

Friday after feeding them I drove to PA to pickup LN and all her belongings from her dorm.

We drove back to festival and she fitted and showed her sheep and entered leadline.

Sunday night we walked them out to trailer and back to Delaware we trucked.

It was easier than fighting the traffic behind the barns.

 She won her Senior Leadline class with Sprout her birder at her side.

I love this wool outfit she made.

It was for National Make it with Wool but she chose not to attend.

I am glad it is being utilized.

LN and her friend bowed their heads in shame after placing last with her one lamb.

Just kidding they were gossiping as the other sheep were placed.

She knew the lamb was smaller than the rest of the class so was not surprised at the judges placing.

Her other yearlings in the Lincoln show did better.

It's a learning process.

We were penned in a central aisle so petting from the public was the norm.

LN had to compete for the sheeps attention as she worked.

Pet me PLEASE!!!

Goofy girl with a long dread caused by winter rubbing .

I do not know where these crazy fools find so many places to get in trouble.

Listening to a lightening storm blowing through.

Hopefully it is taking the 90* heat back where it came from.