Saturday 18 April 2009
Ack ... Post eaten by Blogger
I am not enjoying this right now. My bad ... I am attempting to use the "Preview" screen to create posts. Sigh.
It's working? Really?
I don't believe it.
I will be posting photos of our new lambs later on ... if Blogger still continues to function that is.
I have been pestering their help forum ... it looks like it has worked? Maybe?
For those who can't wait and are on Facebook, I have posted photos in my photo albums. The last three photos in Lambing 2009 are the newborns, and the album titled "Birth Photos" (or something like that) has a play by play of the latest lambing. Rosemary was a doll, lambed in the sunshine at 11:10 and 11:20 a.m. two mornings ago, so we got some great photos :-). Please feel free to look me up at Karen McIlroy Stenhouse!
I will be posting photos of our new lambs later on ... if Blogger still continues to function that is.
I have been pestering their help forum ... it looks like it has worked? Maybe?
For those who can't wait and are on Facebook, I have posted photos in my photo albums. The last three photos in Lambing 2009 are the newborns, and the album titled "Birth Photos" (or something like that) has a play by play of the latest lambing. Rosemary was a doll, lambed in the sunshine at 11:10 and 11:20 a.m. two mornings ago, so we got some great photos :-). Please feel free to look me up at Karen McIlroy Stenhouse!
Monday 13 April 2009
Blogger issues are continuing ...
I'm presently looking about for another blog host, ideally one where I can have a public blog with password protected entries for family business. I did this morning manage to get into the normal create blog screen, so I'm going to now attempt to upload the video of Claire singing "Why" in my previous post. Check there just in case I am successful. :-P Okay ... this is completely frustrating. I saved "Why" in an incompatible file format. The only way to show video now is using a YouTube Player, which will load all my videos. At some point when I'm not completely frustrated with tech stuff, I will move the Youtube Player to my side bar and where I can, reload previous videos. Time to go outside and enjoy the day (and work!)
The good (?) news is there have been no more lambs yet. I'm hoping something will happen today though, because we are now expecting five more days of rain. Based on a LLOOONGG gestation period of 155 days (sheep range from 144 - 155 days normally), and assuming that these two ewes did not conceive until Eddy's very last day on the property, the latest possible lambing date is April 19. Considering that Kivu appeared to get covered right away, I'm a little surprised.
We've had a lovely, peaceful 4-day long weekend ... including Kevin! This is the first year he has had both Good Friday and Easter Monday "off". "Off" in quotes because he did the Good Friday sermon ... and it was excellent. I was very proud of him.
A few photos ... here is Lorelai, our only 4H lamb to date:
This is Digger, Coriander's little ram lamb. He is a cutie, and being raised as a single he's packing on the pounds.
And lastly, here is Max Medina. He is a lovely, leggy long ram lamb.
The good (?) news is there have been no more lambs yet. I'm hoping something will happen today though, because we are now expecting five more days of rain. Based on a LLOOONGG gestation period of 155 days (sheep range from 144 - 155 days normally), and assuming that these two ewes did not conceive until Eddy's very last day on the property, the latest possible lambing date is April 19. Considering that Kivu appeared to get covered right away, I'm a little surprised.
We've had a lovely, peaceful 4-day long weekend ... including Kevin! This is the first year he has had both Good Friday and Easter Monday "off". "Off" in quotes because he did the Good Friday sermon ... and it was excellent. I was very proud of him.
A few photos ... here is Lorelai, our only 4H lamb to date:
This is Digger, Coriander's little ram lamb. He is a cutie, and being raised as a single he's packing on the pounds.
And lastly, here is Max Medina. He is a lovely, leggy long ram lamb.
Tuesday 7 April 2009
Claire singing Nichole Nordeman's "Why" for Holy Week ... not yet/ no more video at Blogger :-(
Unfortunately the sound quality is terrible ... but I adore this song.
Okay ... update ... Google Video is no longer allowing updates to Blogger. I will have to get creative before I can post videos. :-(. Hold on for future updates!
Testing ... testing ... is this going to work?
Okay ... update ... Google Video is no longer allowing updates to Blogger. I will have to get creative before I can post videos. :-(. Hold on for future updates!
Testing ... testing ... is this going to work?
Sunday 5 April 2009
Still waiting for lambs ...
It seems as though our sheep are fussy. Historically, over the last three lambing seasons (which is not a big sample statistically, but nonetheless), our ewes pretty much always lamb on the nicest days. It's certainly true so far this year. We've had extremely rainy weather all week, and no lambs.
Today is supposed to be sunny with a high of seven. Tomorrow, another week of cold ... and SNOW (blech).
So ladies, today would be very, very good!
Today is supposed to be sunny with a high of seven. Tomorrow, another week of cold ... and SNOW (blech).
So ladies, today would be very, very good!
Thursday 2 April 2009
Can you imagine ...
that today, in a fit of maternal protectiveness, Jasmine BIT OFF the end of Roger's tail? Rotter. Roger seems none the worse for wear at the moment after use of a styptic pencil and antibiotics. Do you think he will now understand that Jazzy genuinely doesn't like him?
Rosemary seemed to double in size today; she may in fact be carrying twins. If she's not, I'm a bit worried about the increase.
Kevin survived the spring UCB Share-A-Thon ... he was an exhausted puddle tonight. This was his baby, his planning, his hard work and organization, and it was a very successful event. His boss said to him ... "Do you ever plan something that is NOT successful?" ... which was very affirming for him.
Crazy busy weekend in store with LOTS of plans ... I'm hoping that any further lambs wait until ... hmmm ... Sunday afternoon would work just fine. Ha ha.
Rosemary seemed to double in size today; she may in fact be carrying twins. If she's not, I'm a bit worried about the increase.
Kevin survived the spring UCB Share-A-Thon ... he was an exhausted puddle tonight. This was his baby, his planning, his hard work and organization, and it was a very successful event. His boss said to him ... "Do you ever plan something that is NOT successful?" ... which was very affirming for him.
Crazy busy weekend in store with LOTS of plans ... I'm hoping that any further lambs wait until ... hmmm ... Sunday afternoon would work just fine. Ha ha.
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