Tuesday, April 26, 2011

2011 Lambs for Sale

Here are a few of the lambs for sale.  We have another batch of lambs coming soon which are unrelated to our previous breeding stock.

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Jacob/Finn Cross Ewe Lamb (single) out of Grace (Jacob) and Roland (100% Registered Finn).  $200.00DSC_0249

Jacob/Finn Cross Ram Lamb (single) out of  Mariah (Jacob) and Roland (100% Registered Finn) $200.00

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Registered Cormo Ram Lamb (twin) out of  Kara (2258) and Herman (2404) $300.00

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Registered Icelandic Ram Lamb (single) out of  Bam (LF RAM B2H 385W) and  Lacey (LF EWE B2H 408W) $500.00

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Registered Cormo Ram Lamb (single) out of Marianne (2437) and Herman(2404) $300.00

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Registered Cormo Ram Lamb (single) out of Paula (2358) and Herman (2404) $300.00

Additional pictures and 3 generation pedigrees available upon request.

Cormo Lambs out of Snuffy are due in May.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Sew Crazy!! and a contest :)

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It has been a dozy of a week!  We have lambs everywhere :)  There is one more ewe due for April and she shows all the signs of going any day now.  I am hoping that she goes soon so I can catch up on some sleep before the next round of ewes starts lambing :)

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And in the midst of all the lambing I have had sick kids.   For almost two weeks straight they have been either coughing their heads off or puking :(   Finally they got over it and guess what?   Yep, mom and dad got it.

Anyway on to the point of today’s blog: sewing!    Since I got my new Designer Topaz machine I have been sewing up a storm.   This week I wanted to share some fabulous new (to me) patterns I found:

Keyka Lou Patterns

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All  Keyka Lou patterns are on sale for $5.00 until April 20th!

Lila Tueller is a new found favorite.

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I found all of these lovely patterns and more at Pink Fig.

By the way, I am having a contest on The Counting Sheep Farm Facebook page.   Please drop by and click like to be entered.  If you already like the page then you are automatically entered.   Want another entry?   Tweet this contest, post it to your facebook page or tell people about it on your blog then comment here to let me know what you did!    Thanks guys!

Friday, April 8, 2011

In Between Hello and Goodbye….

Five years is a long time, yet it isn’t nearly long enough.

My sister leaves for Memphis in 3 months.  I have know for quite sometime but tonight it is real.  For whatever reason the deadline looms…

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and I cried the whole way home. 

Memphis isn’t all that far, about a days drive.   Tonight, however it feels like the other side of the world.   It is too far for quick visits, a dinner date.   Too far for “Can you watch my kids?” phone calls.  

Each goodbye feels more permanent.   Each time I leave the driveway brings me closer to the final time.

Isn’t it funny how blessing is overshadowed by hurt?    How quickly we are tempted to replace thankfulness with questioning…I am so willing to forget the blessing of 5 years, the miracle that brought her from our home state of Tennessee to Michigan, and instead to question a Sovereign loving God…Why?

She is called there.  I am called here.   She who is so much part of me is leaving.  

But as she goes there to serve with her surgeon husband, and while I stay to serve here to serve with mine, I know that He who calls is faithful.  And I choose between tears, in this time between hello and goodbye, to accept and be thankful.

…Assuredly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for My sake and the gospels, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time…or in the age to come, eternal life.      Mark 10:29-30

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

What’s going on over there?

Alot.  And I am exhausted.   We had another lamb born, a 100% Cormo Ram lamb.  Sorry no picture yet but I will have one soon!

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Jed tested for his yellow belt.  (Doesn’t he look pleased as punch?)

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Twila had a birthday! (She is 11 now) We spent all day Saturday creating this monstrosity of a cake.   She loved every minute of it.

And I finally updated the etsy store!

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Bay Rum Soap

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Hand Dyed Fingering Weight Yarn, Bittersweet

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100% Merino, Leprechaun’s Gold

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100% Merino, Serendipity

Have you visited our facebook page yet?   The sheep would love it if you would click like :)

Happy Wednesday, I am off to go check the ladies in waiting in the barn!

Friday, April 1, 2011

The Cormos are coming!

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Two new ewe lambs just born :)

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