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Meet: Dorothy, Sofia, Blanche, and Rose

Weather is being funky

A wee bit ago, I heard a yip from Lucy. It was her "it is raining out here, puhleeze let us in" yip. It wasn't raining much, but enough. It's rather cold out right now, and a bit raw.

This weekend, the weather promises to be funky. It can't decide on what it's doing. Tomorrow morning I have guys scheduled to move all the cut up trees, but if it rains, then I will post pone. I am also planning to work dogs this weekend, but I can't if it rains... Hmmm. Well, there is always the grocery shopping, which I NEED to do, and MAYBE a NAP in the afternoon- shhhh, don't tell, someone will do something to break that plan!

Sunday the sheep should arrive before noon. I am not sure if I will go up or not. I may go up tomorrow, and see which ones I will be taking, or not. I just don't know.

I suppose it's a good thing I didn't get into the trial I usually enter (I sent in my entry late) as I just don't think the dogs will have been worked enough, oops, I meant Lucy; Danny is no where near ready.

I got the remaining high tensile wire out of the sheep pasture today after work, and the gate was delivered, along with two combo panels. Gate will look nice when it's up.

Tonight I am just tired out. I feel like cereal for dinner, but then I also feel like London Broil.... Sometimes it sure would be nice to have standing plans to go out, so I could well, eat a good meal some time!

Danny and Lucy are at my feet. Danny is with his ever loving ball, and Lucy is chewing her Nylabone. I am about to fall asleep.

Bzzzzz

Was the sound last night at the farm. I hired a guy with a chainsaw to do some cutting up of the dead/dying trees. It's basically a tree grave yard up there. He worked for two hours, and got a lot done. Still a little more to do, but maybe some other time.
Today I have a kid scheduled to come and take all the cut up wood to some piles outside the fence. This will open things a lot. I think if I were a sheep, I would like this place. It's got cover (trees) and nice grass. Fence is holding up so far- I have had nightmares about the corner posts popping out, and such...

Later today, the gate and a couple combo panels are being delivered. These will come in handy (the panels) because I just realized that the sheep can't be let off the trailer at the gate... Lucy, you better be ready. It's a good walk from the drive way to the pasture....

The sheep should arrive at about 11:00 on Sunday morning. I will give them some time to settle down, and make sure they know where the water is.

I have to go to the grocery store at some time this weekend, I am out of everything!

Well, that's it for now.

Buddy, can you spare a gate?

I need to get a gate, and some combo panels. Everything has gone up so much from a few years ago. A 14' gate is $200.00!!!!!! Lordy. I also have to get a water trough, but I will get that from TS. The gate is cheaper at TS, so I may try and work a deal from Agway, because I simply don't have the energy to rent a truck and get the gate. PLUS the gate will hang off the truck 6', and that makes me nervous. I think I have almost hit the wall.

I found a guy to come and cut up the dead trees- both standing and down, and the wild bushes, whatever they may be. That's a big load off my mind. Too much garbage in there. Once that's done, it will be very nice for the sheep.

I have been dealing with an "off" stomach for a few days now. I think it stems from the chicken/pesto dish I had the other day. Tums are my friends.

The sheep are coming this weekend, if you can believe it. I still don't quite know how, but they are. They will love this little piece of heaven. Lucy will think she died and went to heaven too. Oh, and Danny too!

House is still looking nice and clean, and that makes for a much more relaxed me, which is good.

Well, that's it for now.

A good exhaustion

So, after work yesterday, I worked the dogs. Danny is doing well. He is now even starting to lean to the left, when I set him up, instead of always to the right. He's getting deep enough, but he's still not ready for me to stay further from the sheep. Once he gets this, I think we will progress fast, at least, I hope. I want correct work close and far, period.

Lucy did great driving, and now it's time to work on outruns- kicking her out/deeper, and the God forsaken laying down on the fetch. I don't know about her. Sometimes she's cool, other times she's not. I don't have it in me to be *really* hard on her, so I need suggestions. I am all for a correction if it works, but if it doesn't stick, then what?

She was tired yesterday too, lots of outruns will do that to a girl.

Oh, and we banded tails yesterday on a few extremely cute lambies. On the way home I stopped at the farm and measured for gates. The dogs haven't been in the field yet, but soon.

Sheep may come as early as this weekend, can you believe it?

I am extremely exhausted today, but in a good way, you know?

Well, that's it for now.

It is DONE!

Can you believe it? I mean, seriously? Could it be true? Well, I DO have to install a gate (the other area for a gate, we just left the fence up for now). But, then we are ready. I want to clean out the pasture of dead trees/brambles, but that can be done sometime, even when the sheep are there.

It looks very good. We weren't sure of how tight the fence should go, but it's pretty darn rigid. I do want to put a strand of barbed wire on the outside bottom, off set, but that can also be done later.

What a long slog. The worst part was organizing all the help. It's just been a heck of a thing. Getting workers off craigslist saved me money, but the hassle cost me a lot of headache.

Oh, have to get a water trough and various other items, but we are good to go.

Now, life can go back to regularly scheduled programming.

We are getting there

So, I got a call yesterday, that two out of the three guys never showed up yesterday. Nice. Well, what can I expect for cheap labor? Stunk, but I just needed to NOT go up to the farm for once, so I ended up doing laundry, and various other domestic things I have let slide.

Today, I went to work, and then to the farm. They guys were banging out the job. It's beautifully straight, tight, and well, PRETTY! There is a section where it it off the ground a few inches, but that was unavoidable. There are too many trees and the terrain is un-even. We have about 1/4 left to do, and then we will cut around where the gates are, splice the ends so they look nice and then we are good to go.

I am getting tired of handing $$ over to these guys, but I am saving a lot from contractor's charges.

Once the fence is done, I am just simply going to chill for a week. I need to work/play my dogs, and deal with my house and yard. It's all so behind.

Tonight for dinner I bought a pre-cooked chicken and potato salad from the grocery store, and didn't eat much.

My allergies are so bad. I only took one Benadryl last night and it did not work. Two tonight. I can barely see, and breathe.

Well, that's it for now. Tomorrow (hopefully the guys show up) I will bring my camera and get some pics for you all to see what the heck we've been doing!