Sheep Wrangling

Woe is me. The forgotten blog.
In an effort to remedy this situation, I started going thru my photos to spark my memory of what we've been doing for the past 3 months that haven't been chronicled here.

And I missed such a huge and fun event.... Sheep Wrangling!

Our two sheep, Ke'o and 'Ele

They had eaten their pasture way down. It's been so dry dry dry here, that the grass wasn't growing fast enough to keep up with their needs.
So, move they must.

But these sheep are not human lovers. They tolerate our presence, but we cannot get near them. They regard us with wary expressions when we come to visit them.

Thankfully, our sheep herding friends, Tom and Eve, have lots of experience with scared sheep. They came over with their lassos and lots of knowledge (or fortitude).

Here are Eve and Ra'am- with a huge (and heavy) roll of fencing we planned to use to corral the sheep

Sheep were on the move. They were not thrilled with the arrangements.
I missed the big jumps. Apparently these large creatures can JUMP!

Ra'am, GB, and I held the fencing up while Tom and Eve had their lassos- the plan was for Tom to chase them into the corraling area Eve to lasso them, while we move the big fence and close down the area.

Caught one!
Tom chased him closer to the fence and Eve successfully threw the lasso!

We tied up their legs to transport them in the truck to the upper pasture.

Ele was a little harder to catch, but Eve once again threw a successful lasso! I was very very impressed!

See Luka watching from outside the gate.

Winter wooly coat

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We got them in the back of the truck to drive them up, and I sat there (kind of ON the sheep since he was struggling a bunch) and fed them.
We trimmed their hooves and then set them loose in the new pasture!


On the planting front, here are some mexican sunflowers (?!?) that Buck gave us way before we moved in. I stuck the stalks in the ground, but it was during a drought and so I figured they died. No such thing! Look at all of the flowers!

And we planted a bunch of coronata along the gulch behind the shed.