Our first sheep had their one bad day today. As with our first pigs, I grew more anxious over the last week, mostly in anticipation of what could possibly go wrong. Sheep grow fast and local processors are perpetually scheduled a year out, so this time the labor of it could not be bought – it was up me to get it done.
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Another year, another lesson (or two, or twenty) in self-taught farming. The Sheng Xiao says this is the year of the Tiger, but on the Star & Sparrow zodiac it is the year of the Sheep.
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