This post could have a lot of titles: Brrrr it’s Cold, Who thought this was a good idea, We’re moving to Cedar Pond (more on that later), Murphy’s Law is in full effect – well you probably get the idea…
The first round of shearing happened Thursday morning and that night it dropped down to 30 degrees!!! The previous week felt like Spring and now it definitely feels like Winter. It never fails that when we shear in the winter time, the weather makes a drastic turn for the worse and this year was no different.
This morning I woke up to blue sky and frost everywhere and boy was it chilly!
I started out by telling the girls that I was very sorry and that I would give them extra food. They promptly told me that they were running away from home and were going to hitchhike to Cedar Pond’s farm. They heard that Kathy gives her girls heat lamps to huddle under. They didn’t care how much extra food I was going to give them. So, to keep them from causing a pile up on the highway, I had to resort to turning them out on the green grass…
It may have been sunny when we started shearing, but the fog quickly rolled in and it looked like this when we were done…
and it just got worse as the day progressed. Luckily it isn’t going to be freezing tonight and they are all tucked in the barn with extra straw tonight, but if any of you see a group of Jacob ewes hitchhiking up I-5 will you please send them home…
Stories from the Farm 
You didn’t give them a heat lamp ? I’ll trade you a heat lamp for your lush pastures…and I bet your sheep will opt to stay with the pastures any time, any day ! What a funny post…I’ll be on the look out for some naked spotted sheep heading this way!
Really though, we can be having the mildest winter and the night after shearing seems to take a surprising drop in the temperatures….my daughter-in-law waited for spring and warmer temps to shear her sheep and wouldn’t you know,the temps dropped there too. I am having my sheep sheared the end of next month. And just maybe my sheep will begin lambing then too, like yours!
Brrrr! They look chilly!! : )
Yea, that’s Murphys Law alright. Bed that barn deep and keep the draft out and they will be fine. I will make sure and avoid Interstate 5. That was a very cute story. Kathy, your’re going to have to buy more hay for all those sheep… 🙂
That would definitely cause a pileup on I-5…..hitchhiking Jacobs sheep! 🙂
If they make it as far North as Portland, I’ll grab them–I’m sure they’ll enjoy the 1/1000th of an acre of land in our backyard (and three Cardis barking at them all day)!