Our newest lamb

Just a quick picture of our newest little lamb.

More Lambs

Actually, this is a better picture of Basa our WONDERFUL maremma, but you can see the lamb behind her in the small pen. Basa is so good with the lambs! She helps the ewes keep track and the first time one of the lambs figured out how to escape the pen (of course in the dark of night and yes, a black lamb ;) ) Basa made such a racket we came rushing out to the barn to check things out and were able to get the lamb back with mama in just a few minutes.

This is Demi and her new ewe lamb. She looks especially messy but she's mostly soaking wet! We haven't had a downpour like this in a while and so, of course, another lamb. Thankfully my daughter was here and helped me get mama and baby in the barn with a heat lamp and some deep hay and we were able to make sure she was nursing and not just sucking on wet fleece . . .
I was trying to get this picture up while she was still the newest lamb. . . but that was a couple of days ago and we now have another sweet lamb. Can someone please tell me why the ewe's think the nasty weather is the time to lamb??? On the up side, I've heard we might get snow this weekend, maybe we'll have another lamb or two :)

Our First Lamb!!

What a darlin' lamb! We heard Basa barking and went out to check what was going on. Look what we found :) Honestly, I knew they'd be little (we raise Shetlands after all) but my goodness, when she stands next to the fence she's not as tall as three of the squares on the 4"x4" cattle panel fencing she was next to.

After we got mama and baby set up in their own space and took care of the necessities we came in for a quick lunch and then back to check on everyone - with the camera this time. She's been nursing like a champ and was taking a nap when I started taking pictures. Mama didn't seem too happy with me waking her up so I'll try and get more pictures tomorrow

How do you like it now??

Remember back in December when I got some beautiful roving in a swap? Then I spun it up into about a sport weight 3 ply with one being alpaca? Well, look what it's going to be. This scarf is similar to the Morning Surf Scarf. I'm using size 10 needles and the picture below is much more accurate as far as color goes.

I'll get better pictures when it's all done.