The Ornery Shepherd

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#sheepsky

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

New bracelets are up in the shop!

TheOrneryShepherd on Etsy

#resist #knitting #knittersagainstfascism

They're just SO pretty.
(New sprinkle colorways in our Bulky weight 🧶)

Find em at theorneryshepherd on etsy!

#gulfcoastnativewool #skysheep #farmfresh #buylocal

If the old man wants caramel corn, the old man gets caramel corn.

He's about 100 in people-years, and he's been a trash panda the entire time, so why get weird about it now? 🤷🏼

#notanalmondmom

I once requested that a giant anteater take the left fork in the trail, and it politely did so (I was eating my lunch on the ground in the middle of the right fork).

When in doubt, I always try to be courteous with wildlife. 😊

#peoplehoweverareawholeotherstory #farmsky

She NEVER goes walkabout. I have no idea what that was about at. all. 🤷🏼

I'll take "Not What I Needed Before my 2nd Cup of Coffee this Morning" for $1000, Alex.

Good thing I still have those awesome Amazonian-rainy-season-mud skills. 😏

Some shots from my last day at the Gwinnett Fair!

🐑 I'm loving our new GA Sheep sign
🐑 The "Petting Zoo" was a hit once more this year, as was my Diversity in Ag shirt
🐑 Pixie wheel was such a champ & always a crowd favorite 🧶

#countyfair #gasheep #pettingzoo #agisntjustforoldwhiteguys

Had a great time helping out with the fleece judging at the Gwinnett County Fair yesterday. There were some real beauties!!

#gasheep #gawool #gwinnettfair #skysheep #gulfcoastnativewool

Dem Lives Matter bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Figured that some of y'all might need a dose of Emotional Support Lewis after this sh!tshow of a week.

And, yes -- he eats his daily noms out of a Publix bakery frosting bucket. We're fancy like that.

#emotionalsupport #momentofzen #farmlife

Glad we could help! (That was me on the emails today. 😁)

Yep. If you go on the GCSBA online registry (it's publicly available), there's a whole section dedicated just to rams. Folks post pics -- so it's a good place to see a lot of variety in one go.

Being horny and hard to kill are basically their defining characteristics. 😁

He absolutely looks like a GCN. And, he's **very** pretty. ♥️ (I'm the current Pres of the GCSBA, so I think just about all of them are beautiful. 😉)

Yeah. If you read their official 'breed' description, it basically says "not very big; typically no wool on head, belly, or legs; parasite and heat resistant". The rest of their characteristics are ALL over the board. They're a bit like Justice Potter Stewart's definition of pornography. 😏

...(basically humping whoever they ran into while grazing the entirety of the SE US over 600 yrs), widely geographically-distributed genetic bottlenecks (island-type effects), would likely make doing something like that functionally difficult. 🤷🏼

Since GCNs are a landrace and not a breed, there may be some markers that one **could** technically choose to say "This is a GCN", but I think that the high degree of genetic variation within the group, historic outbreeding...

Apparently, that local hay slaps. 😏

#skysheep #gulfcoastnativesheep

Rosalie REALLY enjoys her job (protecting the 🐑🐑🐑 & her boyfriend 🐐 Lewis & her BFF 🐶 Bella).
#workingdog #skydog #dogsky

It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.

Thanks! Yeah, they're a fairly photogenic lot. It helps that they're spoiled rotten. 😏

A(tticus)SMR ♥️

#skysheep #gulfcoastnativesheep

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

WGBH building in Boston today

The view from my window. 🦌#hellofren

I mean, it has been a while since I read the Bible, but I don't remember the part where Jesus says, "F*ck you. I got mine.". 🤷🏼

Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.

Lady Bird always enjoys a cool, refreshing treat when she knows it's gonna be a HOT one.

#heatwave #skysheep #sheepsky #gulfcoastnativesheep #backyardgarden 🧶