This is looking east from our backporch. Its time for me to head to work, and the sun is just about ready to pop over the eastern horizon. The little building is a former chicken coop, pressed into service as a place to shelter and shade the Katahdins when they are in the area. We use this pasture to lamb in, and we can also tuck a mother with a weak newborn lamb in there too if need be. You can see a few of the Katahdins lounging near the gate, waiting for Chuck to finish breakfast and go out to fork some hay to them off the round bale that is stashed just to the left of the gate, out of the picture. It was very dry this fall, and we're running out of stockpiled grass, so they are eating hay now. If I could tippy toe over to that building, I bet there are a BUNCH of Kat ewes in there. These subzero mornings, it sometimes reminds me of a clown car, watching all those ewes pop out of the building. :^) How many Katahdins can you get in a phonebooth?
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Thanks for sharing the photos of your farm. It looks so pretty there with all the hills and the beautiful skies.
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