Sheepy post

The girls are all doing very well. Hopefully in a few months or even weeks lambs will be on the ground.

Sabrina is getting to be an old hand at this being my oldest sheep in the flock. She's just happy that she gets animal crackers every other night when I sit with the girls as Daisy Mae eats.

Amelia is becoming a lot like her mom Hermione and comes over for attention now instead of trying to run away.

The single girls are doing well too. Daisy Mae has put on another 2lbs, and although she still looks smaller than Jacqui she is continuing to grow nicely. Any ideas on how to put extra weight on her though would be good.

Dreamer just wanted to make sure I paid attention to him to, he's such an attention seeker and loves it all.

I go back to college this week. But I need to spend some time coming up soon pulling hay out of everyone's fleeces and trimming hooves. Almost time to contact the sheep shearer :)

Pictures from England

There were a a few pictures that we downloaded of my mums that were not taken in the States that I thought I would share. These are from a walk at Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenham_Clumps, a walk I took many times when I lived in England. I love the view from the clumps as well.

From there she walked down to Dorchester-on Thames and around the Abbey. I like the stone work.

You can see all the paintings on the wall, apparently even more impressive in real life, and some great stained glass.

Then the walk back along the Thames river and up the clumps.

All of this with her 2 (soon to be 3) toy poodles Ashley, and Rowan (the doggles are to help her eyes) no doubt, although this is them at the park a few days later in the snow.

Wish I could have been there. I feel quite nostalgic for England and miss it sometimes. Might need to try some fish and chips tomorrow for dinner.

Parents visit part 2

So one of the places my parents wanted to visit was the barn where I board my horse Muppet. We managed to make two trips out there for a lesson and just a visit. Both of my parents were impressed with how lovely Muppet is, they hadn't seen him for 2 years and he has grown up very nicely.

Here he is posing for the camera with us.

This is the barn owners 2 dogs Cat and Pie.

And one of the barn workers (Steve's) new malamute puppy Malachi.

This is Muppet and I in our lesson.

Another thing we had to do was make the most of the snow and go sledding. It ended up just being Ian, my mum and myself. Ian did have fun though.

That's all for today. Tomorrow I'll hopefully put up some of the final pictures my mum took when she was here. I hope everyone is enjoying them :)

Parents visit part 1

A belated happy new year to everyone.

My parents flew back to England yesterday after spending a lovely week here in Massachusetts with us. We celebrated Christmas (again), and New Year, and generally had a great time. Here are some of the pictures my mum took when she was here.

The sheep in the snow.

A few of our breakfast guests that ate while we enjoyed their variety and color.

All of us after a walk on New Years day.

More pictures in the next part. Hopefully up tomorrow.

Merry Christmas

It's been a long time (again) since I posted and updated you all on life at Ridgeway Farm. I have been busy finishing up with college for the semester. I also got the very sad news the other night that my grandmother in England died. Finally I have been busy with Christmas preparations. My parents are flying out on the 28th of December, and we have been getting everything ready here for that.

Here is the Christmas card we took for 2009. Left to right is Fiona and Annabelle, Sandra and Binson, Ian and Jubjub, and me and Daisy Mae. Thank goodness it was her as I never would have been able to lug Jacquith through the snow.

We have a winter storm warning ready to hit tonight, hopefully I can make the best out of it and get some good pictures tomorrow of everyone in the snow. I broke up the breeding groups at the start of December and everyone has settled back into their groups and are doing very well. I am of course hoping for lots of ewe lambs this spring.

Here is my blast from the past for you to look at. Muppet wasn't my first horse. This is Jack my first horse. He was a 5 year old OTTB who I owned for just over a year.

As you can see Muppet followed along pretty quick.

I don't know what it is about grey horses lol. That's a lot of bathing.

That's all for today. I hope everyone is getting ready for the holiday's, only 6 days to go.

Catching up

It's been a weird sort of month so far. First of all thank you everyone for the condolences for Mighty Mouse. The following Sunday our son lost one of his guinea pigs which was very sad too, and ou yard now looks like the start of pet cemetery.

Then I attended Equine Affaire in Springfield with my friend Alex, it is a huge horse event and we had a blast shopping, watching a clinic and collecting freebies. The next day I had a medical conference in Boston which was also good and I got even more free things. My son (been a bad month for him) also had H1N1, but so far everyone else in the house is well. He is better now and back at school thankfully. Oh and somewhere in that week I had time to break a finger and hyperflex a thumb on the same hand lol. However life is finally getting back to normal and I am looking forward to catching up on all the blogs I follow. So here are some pictures for you all.

A glorious sunrise from the start of November.

Christina the very broody silkie.

The brown breeding group of Sunnys. For some reason they all grouped into the shade.

Cammie looking like she is about the burst out of her sheep coat.

Sabrina taking in the sun.

Jacqui also enjoying the rare sunshine.

And the best picture I could get of Jewel who is sad not to be in a breeding group, and now insists on trying to be a close as possible to me.

Thanks again for your patience, I will try and update sometime soon. My daughters birthday party is the weekend and I have too bake a cake tomorrow for it before I take her to see "New Moon'.

Sad note

Mighty Mouse died today. It was very sudden and we don't know why. He played most of yesterday running around the outside of his wheel (which was what he liked) and was so much fun to watch. Anyway we buried him in our yard with a small bowel of food and the socks he liked to sleep inside.

Hopefully happier news soon.