Weekend Chores....again!

I'm really certain that weekends should be 5 days long, and weekdays 2 days......that way a person might stand half a chance at getting everything on the "to do" list done!

Yesterday afternoon we spent hauling bales from the field to the stack yard. I also wanted to redo some fencing around a small field behind the quonset to try and keep my sheep in, since the hot wires weren't working so well. So every time I parked the truck and trailer for Larry to off load the bales I would get out and pull staples and take off a couple of strands of barb wire and roll it up. This system worked pretty good....multi tasking at it finest :o)) I had bought 32" field fencing so I wanted to leave the top couple of strands of barb wire and put the field fencing on underneath, AND I left the 2 hot wires on the inside! By the time we were done hauling bales I had all the old barb wire that I wanted to take off.....and the fence ready for the new stuff. This afternoon right after lunch we went out and hung the fencing. Hey....it looks good and if those damn sheep get out of there.....they better keep on goin if they know whats good for them! I had Kya go gather the sheep from another field and bring them in for me. She can still get out and around her stock, I do see a little bit of a belly starting to develop, but its not slowing her down yet! :)

Back to work tomorrow.......its kinda looking like the mosquitos scourge has ended and there is still enough daylight hours when I get home from work, so with any luck I'll be able to work Kya and Chili for a while yet. I had fully intended to set up one of Sherry Bakers new proposed courses this weekend, but that didn't happen...guess that little chore gets moved to next weekend's "to do" list :)

Weekend Chores

Spent the weekend getting things ready for winter, which like it or not will probably arrive sooner than we'd like!

We started hauling our hay in the from the fields, what little of it we have this year :( The 2 fields that we normally hay which generally yield 150-175 bales gave us 34 bales :( We also hayed about half of our 40 acre slough field this year......a first for us as since we moved here as it has always been toooo wet to get on to. This field yielded 106 bales, so we have a start to our winter feed, but still need to buy more......if we can find it :( I also fixed part of my electric fence in hopes that my sheep will stay put! I let them out this morning only to look out my kitchen window a while later to see them galavanting thru one of the cattle fields, so I sent Kya to bring them in. She did a lovely outrun and gathered them all up while I stood at the gate.......buggers! She seems to be feeling pretty good thru this pregnancy and shows no signs of slowing down yet!

Mosquitos.. or how to go broke buying insecticides!

Kya bringing some sheep out of a pen.

Kya bringing sheep in to the round pen.

2 big bulls.

For 2 years we've been Mosquito free, then about 2+ weeks ago they arrived in droves and it seems they're trying to make up for lost time! They have been extremely viscious, so we haven't been doing much training, or much of anything at all if it involves going outside!

Last week Dorien Vogelaar from the Netherlands came to visit me for a couple of days. Dorien has been bit by the trialing bug, and entered her first trial with her Aussie this past August and they did very well! :) So, now she's thinking about what she would like from her next Aussie. Dorien is interested in a pup from Chili and so she came to meet and us! Dorien also takes terrific pictures, (check out some of them on Chili' and Kya's page) so we SPRAYED her down and went out and worked dogs each day! Poor Dorien, unfortunately they really liked her:( But she did get some great pictures!

Until the mosquitos die out my evenings are pretty much bringing the horses in and spraying them down, and then having Kya or Chili bring the sheep in.....feeding everyone and heading back inside.

I'll add some of Dorien's pictures over the next few days....oh and a couple of her Bison pictures....they were at the top of her list of things she had to see while visiting Alberta!

Getting Started

This is a new venture for me, so bare with me while I figure blogging out! I've had a fun summer with lots of visitors, many of them dog friends with canine partners in tow :)..... so over the next few days I'll get some summer pictures up, and keep everyone up to speed on Kya's pregnancy! :o)