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Friday I took off work, and went to shear 11 sheep. However, I only ended up shearing 8 of them, because one of the ewes managed to kick my clippers out of my hand and of course it landed on concrete, broke a comb and disconnected a wire. It still worked as long as the cord was at certain angles, so I finished the important sheep (lambs heading to slaughter), and left the other three ewes to be done later.
I drove the clippers to the guy on Saturday, he does the sharpening of the combs and cutters too, and he finished fixing them yesterday. I'll be driving up this afternoon to pick them up, and finishing shearing tomorrow night. They're Icelandics and at least I did the ram first on Friday. But the ewes are 1.5 years old and the farmer only bought them in May, but they'd never been sheared because the previous place was very hands off. So they're big and not happy with the clippers or being rolled around.
After I dropped the clippers off, I picked B up from the farm and we did a little pokemon wander around the area and then I dropped her at the train station to head home.
Sunday morning, I got up and started working on the fencing in the backyard. It's to let Mara out there to wander when she wants and to protect my sad sad garden from the deer. The posts I had driven in two weeks ago, which involved driving a wedge in first as far as I could get it and then driving the posts in afterwards. Most of the posts are decently in the ground. On Sunday, I started cutting the fencing into sections and tying it to the fence. I'm very happy that my sections method has worked with the uneven ground. Since the sections are 7-10 feet long, there isn't a ton of bowing of the fence due to the hill. And once I started gently bending the fencing the opposite way of the roll, so it would be moderately straight. I ran out of both ties and fencing, so when I run to get my clippers, I'll stop and pick up more of each. It should only be one more 100ft roll to finish plus figuring out easy ties for the gates.
I also finally burned the wood I had laying around in the yard plus some branches that had fallen. Some of the wood had gotten very weird, so if it was a small log, I threw it over the bank. But I burned the stuff full of nails. It was nice to have a fire going too.
It's finally cold and I think I'm going to turn on the heat tonight. It'll be in the 30s F overnight although we aren't in danger of frost. But only 50s in the day and at a certain point, my hands get too cold to do things, and that's when I get annoyed. It's hovering around 60f in the house right now which is about as cold as I want it during the day. At night it can be cooler.
I drove the clippers to the guy on Saturday, he does the sharpening of the combs and cutters too, and he finished fixing them yesterday. I'll be driving up this afternoon to pick them up, and finishing shearing tomorrow night. They're Icelandics and at least I did the ram first on Friday. But the ewes are 1.5 years old and the farmer only bought them in May, but they'd never been sheared because the previous place was very hands off. So they're big and not happy with the clippers or being rolled around.
After I dropped the clippers off, I picked B up from the farm and we did a little pokemon wander around the area and then I dropped her at the train station to head home.
Sunday morning, I got up and started working on the fencing in the backyard. It's to let Mara out there to wander when she wants and to protect my sad sad garden from the deer. The posts I had driven in two weeks ago, which involved driving a wedge in first as far as I could get it and then driving the posts in afterwards. Most of the posts are decently in the ground. On Sunday, I started cutting the fencing into sections and tying it to the fence. I'm very happy that my sections method has worked with the uneven ground. Since the sections are 7-10 feet long, there isn't a ton of bowing of the fence due to the hill. And once I started gently bending the fencing the opposite way of the roll, so it would be moderately straight. I ran out of both ties and fencing, so when I run to get my clippers, I'll stop and pick up more of each. It should only be one more 100ft roll to finish plus figuring out easy ties for the gates.
I also finally burned the wood I had laying around in the yard plus some branches that had fallen. Some of the wood had gotten very weird, so if it was a small log, I threw it over the bank. But I burned the stuff full of nails. It was nice to have a fire going too.
It's finally cold and I think I'm going to turn on the heat tonight. It'll be in the 30s F overnight although we aren't in danger of frost. But only 50s in the day and at a certain point, my hands get too cold to do things, and that's when I get annoyed. It's hovering around 60f in the house right now which is about as cold as I want it during the day. At night it can be cooler.
