Posted in livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged lambing, sheep on 31 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
Checked on the sheep every couple of hours through the night - for the two ewes that could have started lambing, Sharona and her new borns, and little Conan, being fed bottles. All well, no signs of labour, Sharona was keeping her charges snuggled, Conan taking his bottles with increasing eagerness.
Then himself wanders down at [...]
Posted in livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged lambing, lambs, sheep, smallholding on 30 March 2008 | 5 Comments »
another exhausting day, following having only 1-2 hours sleep the night before. Himself has been making 3 hourly checks throughout the night.. on both the ewes that have not lambed, but also last night’s arrivals. At the 6am check, he found one of the triplets was not looking so good.
The weather had thankfully improved a [...]
Posted in livestock, sheep, tagged lambing, sheep on 29 March 2008 | 7 Comments »
Only yesterday I was hoping Sharona would get on and lamb as she seemed so uncomfortable and down.. and at quarter past midnight - just into the due day! she began.
Unfortunately it was a pretty bleak night.. first very cold and then later rain. We have opted to lamb outdoors, as statistically there is a better [...]
Posted in livestock, sheep, tagged lambing, sheep on 28 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
We are obsessively sheep watching these days. The official due day is this Saturday, but you know what they say.. a watched ewe never lambs. well we have been saying it anyway.
Sharona is looking very pregnant:
I’m a tad worried about her, she is not eating as much as the others and everything seems difficult. Particularly [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged sheep, smallholding, vegetables on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »
I know I have gone on lately about how nice PSB (purple spouting broccoli) is- but it really is a great veg. This is our first year of growing it.. can you tell?!
But there it is, filling the ‘hungry gap’ with something we actually like! - we only put in one row, helped it through [...]
Posted in books, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged fruit, gardening, sheep, smallholding on 26 March 2008 | No Comments »
Our garden is very overlooked, and today the neighbours probably wondered what I was doing, as I spent a fair bit of time just standing in the middle.. looking.
We are rethinking the garden layout. See, when we first came here, we had the idea that the garden would have the flowers, and the fields would [...]
Posted in make it yourself, tagged socks, knitting on 25 March 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well this plan of having only five WIP in terms of knitting is working out, and I have now finished one of the smaller projects - socks. They are great - really comfy (please ignore the mud on my jeans and the wall that is part of our ‘make living room more pleasant project’!)
The yarn [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 24 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
Pulled our first radishes today. I would show you a picture of how lovely they looked.. but we ate them!
Well worth sowing a row in the greenhouse border.. they are out of the way before the tomatoes want to go in, and lovely to have the first taste of salads.
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