Desert Weyr Blog
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Right at Home
I guess this pile of wood shavings mulch makes a great bed/lookout area! Continue reading
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Sheep and Chickens
The spare sheep has settled right in here at Desert Weyr. He hardly even moves now when we go outside. He’s eating the hay meant for the horses and donkey, and we’ve had to move sheep away from where he hangs out. I sure wish he’d move on to someplace else. The newest batch of… Continue reading
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Spare Sheep
We had a spare sheep today – a Rocky Mountain Big Horn ram. A young one, too, by the look of the horns. He was in the grazing pen with our sheep. We scooted ours back into the corrals and took down the fencing so he could escape. That’s the end of grazing the front… Continue reading
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Snow on Mt. Lamborn and Chicken Arrival Day
On June 6th, there was fresh snow on Mt. Lamborn. I even got a picture this time. Over the last day or so, we’ve gotten almost half an inch of rain, and the Grand Mesa got four inches of fresh snow. The rains will be really good for establishing our pastures. Today was also chicken… Continue reading
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The Woolevator
The new shop’s second story is a long way up. When we stored wool in the old Red Barn’s loft, you could toss the wool boxes up, and the person in the loft could catch them. However, the new shop is much too tall for that. While going up and down the stairs may be… Continue reading
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Woolly Lawnmowers
Why dig out the string trimmer when you have sheep? After all, that’s what makes a great lawn: sheep grazing on it. So, we fenced off the front of the house for the sheep. We did have to put some jug panels up on the stairs to prevent sheep from making themselves at home on… Continue reading
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Late Snow!
Yesterday, there was snow down on Jumbo Mountain. I didn’t get a picture – it was off-and-on cloudy, and by the afternoon, it had all melted. I don’t remember the last time we had snow this far down the mountain this late in the year, but we can get snow as late as June. It… Continue reading
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Planting, Marking, Lambing, and More
A lot has been going on, and I haven’t updated this much since we’ve been so busy. The white shed is now completely gone. We still have a few foundation pieces that need removing. They’re rotten logs embedded into the ground, so removing them will take a while. We also had a major hailstorm on… Continue reading
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Demolition!
We’re getting down to the last of the demolition projects on the farm. This old shed was near one corner of the front field. The wooden supports had been eaten by horses, and the siding was just particleboard that had been painted. It didn’t have any foundation – just some old treated telephone poles. It… Continue reading
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More Disking
Several passes later, the front field is looking pretty good. We still need to disk it once more to break up the clods, but we should be ready to plant later this week. As soon as it’s planted and marked, we’ll have to hurry and get irrigation pipes set up on it. The field below… Continue reading