Lambing is my favorite time of the year, but it can also be super stressful and exhausting. For the last two weeks, I have been setting my alarm every two hours at night to get up and check the sheep. It’s exhausting but worth it. Thankfully I have a barn camera, so I don’t have […]
I have spent so much time caring for animals that I haven’t written in a while. We’ve also been able to get some work done on the house recently. Fortunately, there’s a lot to report, including the recent addition of a puppy! In early September, I welcomed an eight-week-old golden retriever puppy into my life. […]
If you read my last blog, you might remember that I decided not to breed my lambs that I got last year. At the end of November, I bought a ewe that we believed was pregnant. It’s been a long three and a half months waiting for the lambs. At one point, I thought she […]
If you’ve been reading my blog, Laura’s House Journey, you will remember that I had a hard time deciding if I should breed my sheep last fall or not. Everyone that I talked to had a different opinion. My bottle lamb Maggie was too small to breed, so I would have had to separate her. […]
Don’t get me wrong. I love my heat pump, but in the dead of winter in Maine, it just doesn’t seem to cut it. When we were building my house, we decided to go with the heat pump as my sole source of heat, knowing that at some point we’d have to supplement it with […]
For the first time since March, we made progress on the house this past week. My Dad has been working on making the kitchen cabinet doors. Thursday, on Thanksgiving Day, we decided to put some up. We got three up. He has several more doors that he has made that we need to put up. […]
It’s been a busy fall on the homestead. I’ve spent much more time on the sheep than I have the house. As we spend less and less time outside as the temperature drops, we’ll probably have more time to spend working inside. I learned very quickly that doing chores in the dark is no fun […]
As a shepherd, it has been an education and sobering weekend. I have gained a lot of knowledge but realized that I have a lot more to learn. I was excited to go to the Common Ground Fair this weekend as one of Maine’s leading experts in Katahdin sheep was giving several presentations. Since I […]
I was hoping that I would have house progress to report, but that’s not the case. However, I do have a new shed. I am ecstatic about the shed, and we will make more progress on the house eventually. It was interesting being back at square one and building again. I was pounding nails and […]
I have enjoyed nearly every aspect of my new house. It’s in a great location, there are some amazing neighbors, however they are not too close, and there is plenty of grass for my little lambs to eat. Despite not being finished, I love the house itself. There is one thing, however, that I vehemently […]
