Today's Nap Brought To You By...

...bossy big sisters who use you as a foot rest :-).

Final Frontier Farm, Paris, Kentucky

Sweet Sisters

Those sweet sisters from the other day.

Could they be any cuter?

I couldn't pick a favorite, but I did make one into a puzzle :-).

Final Frontier Farm, Paris, Kentucky

The Calendar Post...Finally

I was feeling pretty bad about how late it had gotten to put up the calendar post until I looked at last year and saw it was November 16th.  Hey, I'm two days earlier this year!  And then I scrolled down and remembered (trying really hard to forget!) that we were up to our necks in the big home remodel last year.  Oh right...

Without further ado, the 2017 calendars!  

Same format as previous years.

Always Hank.

Here is your bizarre story of the day.  I took several shots of the Maisie month to make sure I had the camera straight.  I actually do that with all the pictures because I tend to tilt the camera as I squeeze the shutter sometimes.  Anyway, in looking through my Maisie pictures, trying to decide the straightest shot, it looked like she was winking at me (!).

Just think about that for a minute. I'm taking a picture. Of a picture.   In my head I figured out that it was just a camera angle issue, recording more or less of the dark color of the picture of her eye...but my heart knows she's probably just pulled another good one on me.  And she looks pretty smug about it.

"Please buy our calendar with a creepy picture of a half crazy sheep whose eye follows you around the room WHILE SHE IS SLEEPING!"

Yeah, I'm probably headed to McDonald's to flip burgers to pay the hay bill this year...

If we all live through March, there's a little sweet Graham to wash our eyes out.  In more ways than one.  I miss that big, funny, sweet, annoying goofball :-/.

Baby birds!  Okay, so we just have to make it through til June!

Lots of little pictures again.

And my all time favorite picture...so far.

And don't forget that Saint Tim printed two calendars this year.  You can pick with cat you'd like to spend September with or let me surprise you.  Just let me know what you prefer :-).

And the 2017 Lamb Camp calendar :-).

Bullwinkle on the cover.

Sweet mommas and babies.

Sleeping lambies.

Lambies on jungle gyms.

Okay, here's a cute story about taking pictures of calendars.  Actually, it is about note card pictures.  I knew I'd taken some farm shop pictures back in the spring and this lambie reminded me.  I dug back and found them.

Bullwinkle's probably just looking at the shiny plastic, but I like to think he's looking at the picture.

And the lamb is looking back at him.  In a good way :-).

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We'll do it basically like we do every year.  Equinox Farm calendars are $12.50 each and the Lamb Camp calendars are $10.00. Shipping (to the US) will be a flat fee of $6.10 using a Priority Flat Rate Envelope.  Shipping overseas last year was not as expensive as I feared.  I'm happy to get a quote for you. Likewise for Canada.

If you are buying just a small Lamb Camp calendar and you live in Lexington, I will use a smaller plain envelope and charge you the actual shipping costs, probably around $4.50. Everyone else will be pretty close to the actual costs using the USPS envelope.  

If you'd like to order one (or more), just send me an email with what you'd like and your shipping address. I'll send everything out with an invoice and a return envelope and you can drop a check in the mail upon receipt.

There are also Lamb Camp note cards, Christmas cards, drop spindle kits, Maisie Orneries, Mug Shot mugs, My Favorite Sheep canvas totes...in the new Farm Shop (yes, it's finally mostly updated) if you are interested.

As always, we truly thank you for your support.

My Littlest Helper

I have had so much help getting ready for this weekend. I cannot even begin to express my gratitude.  And my littlest helper has been a special treat.  For us all I think :-).  

I've made sure Baaxter's had as much "normal" time as possible over the last week and a half/his whole life.  We've played, napped, had lamb races in the yard, LOTS of babas...

He has taken long helpful naps in "his" dog house, under my skirting table, on the red shelf in the kitchen. 

Sweet, sweet boy.

Come see us this weekend!  Thanks to Baaxter (and John and Reg and Saint Tim) there are tons of raw fleeces, roving, new Lamb Camp note cards, drop spindle kits, Christmas cards and even a few calendars.  There are still spots open in my blogging and photography workshop on Sunday morning and the forecast is looking perfect!

Are You Ready For Lamb Camp?

How about these adorable Babydoll Southdown lambs at Bergamascos' Babydoll Brigade?

Michelle's neat ID collars, ready for a set of just born triplets :-).

Teefers

Can't beat a cute teefers shot :-).

Or some teefers and a big yawn :-D.

A beautiful Icelandic lamb at Flat Creek Wool and Pottery.  More later.  It's late and I'm beat.