The Rain is here

Well, I guess it's Fall. It's been raining all day. The heavy stuff. The stuff that makes working outdoors pretty much a non entity.

Yesterday the guy that came to mow the pastures down got pretty much of it, but the stalks of some of the Scotch Broom need either a chainsaw or handsaw to take them out. But I now can see all the way to the far fence next to the road and see the sheep hunkered down under the big fir tree during the rain. They came briefly out during a not so wet spell to eat but went back in when it started to pour.

I'm thinking that I'll need to get shelters for the two rounds of hay so they have a dryer place to eat. I'm thankful that I don't have the mud issue like I had before. The sheep and dogs are far cleaner now.

This morning, my neighbor Nancy and I went over to Steamboat Island Goat Farm and picked up some cheese. I bought a little bit of Feta - YUMMY; and she bought some of that as well as some cheddar. The owner and I chatted about sheep vs goat milk and such. It was interesting to share knowledge. I also talked with him about the wonders of having sheep dogs (which he doesn't have) and that a good trained dog is worth their weight in gold when it comes to moving stock!

Anyway, A pretty much non productive weekend. Granted I have been moving my data to my new 2 TB hard drive - getting a lot of stuff off the laptop to free up space there and hopefully have it run a bit faster. And found a Database program that I may get some ideas about in setting one up in Access to track my sheep flock.