Riven Oak Farm - Steve

The shearer is a big guy, but Sebastian is big and feisty.

From shearing day, we were pretty busy so just have some WebCam footage. This is Sebastian, one of our biggest and rowdiest rams. He gets to be first done in the morning, while the shearer is fresh.

Or animal shelters

We have a similar arch as an entrance into our butterfly garden

There is another element to this juxtaposition. The Porsche is pretty old, probably a turbo circa 1980s-90s. That Porsche was an over the top, drool worthy car. But would be rather average for today. The exact same could probably be said about the steam engine. Hot Today, Not Tomorrow.

Now If I could just find a solar field near me that isn't 500+ acres and needs 1000 sheep.

Shearing day, NSFW naked ewe pictures.

Lookin Good! Congrats 🎉

Good Luck! Turn , fold, refrigerate, repeat :)

Like in person or zoom? I wonder how angry he is in person, or one of those angry music nice person types.

Looks to be doing the I can’t get comfortable dance. I think you are right and lambs will delight you shortly.

MERL (Museum of English Rural Life) got it in 1. 3 for me.

A railroader and a manager of a Safeway grocery store. G-Moms were a farmer/housewife and a church lady and president of the local women’s Christian temperance union.

Morgan Lewis Windmill, Barbados ~ By Drone YouTube video by Barbados By Drone

This was the Sugar Mill I was remembering. The tail on the back allowed them to rotate the blades into the wind. In a description they said they put the sails on it on sundays, so It would seem the lattice would be covered with canvas.
I was imaging way to complicated, like the blades feathered.

Congrats! I love to eat and avoiding restaurants and lots of farm exercise keeps me from being the fat version of myself.

It just is fun looking at the mechanics of it. Do the white panels feather back to create force. Is there and adjusting angle of attack, rotation of the top?
Iirc in Barbados they had cane crushing mills where the top rotated into the wind.

Yep, here is some of the mom crew with their several month old lambs.

We have 24 amuracana (a couple of olive eggers in that count) we have our first trial batch of 9 in a Christmas incubator. Seeing how it goes.

Barbados Blackbelly Sheep - The Livestock Conservancy The Barbados Blackbelly is a hair sheep breed that evolved from from crosses of African hair sheep and European wooled breeds that were brought to Barbados beginning in the mid-1600s.

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Gulf Coast or Gulf Coast Native Sheep - The Livestock Conservancy Gulf Coast sheep, also known as Gulf Coast Native sheep, Woods sheep, and Native sheep, descend from the Spanish flocks brought to the New World by explorers and settlers beginning in the 1500s. Their...

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Florida Cracker Cattle - The Livestock Conservancy Florida Cracker cattle are considered a living part of Florida history and herds have been maintained at several state parks and forests in the state.

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We had Bossie and Abigail for about 3 years. Rare registered Florida Crackers. All of our animals are livestock conservancy watch list animals.

Our cows going away picture, headed to another ranch and a little girls Christmas present. They now have a cute bull to hang out with.

Let the cows sing 🎤

80 % of a job listing is about how great the company is, legal disclaimers and all the great personality traits the ideal candidate would have. Buried in the center is the job description. Working with recruiters is better they filter all the crap and give you two sentences.

They are probably generated by AI, you probably want to cut and paste the whole advert into AI and have it remove the boilerplate that the first AI added.

It's Friday, and although I still work a 9-5, I do it from home and I'm looking at the sheep wandering around and having some hay. I have chickens going back and forth. And the latest cold spell has subsided. It's a pretty good morning.

I love growing tatsoi, just keep harvesting leaves off the bottom. My wife can grow anything, but I can manage this.