8/15/21

 After church we headed to the fairgrounds to take care of the sheep and have them weighed.  Adam's sheep weighed 129#, Eli's weighed 119# and Jacob's was 116#.  From there we headed to the store for groceries and picked up pizza for lunch.  After lunch we went outside to work.  The boys helped replace a gate and raise a couple gates that were too low.  Jacob replaced a broken post.  Adam took down some old electric fence insulators.  We put up a new electric fence so that it would reach across the gates.  We don't want the ram destroying another gate.  Then the boys helped us separate the lambs from the ewes.  They were not easy to catch.  We also picked out five sheep ewes that will be going to market when we take the lambs.  We are keeping 10 nice sheep, 5 white and 5 browns.  The boys went inside to play minecraft.  Jared and I caught the Oscar and Han so we could shear them.  While we were catching Oscar he jumped right in the water tank.  Han followed him and got wet too.  After shearing Oscar we put him in with the ewes.  We sheared Han and then the boys helped us move the lambs and ewes (the ones we aren't keeping) into the ram's paddock.  Adam mowed along the fence and Jacob weedwacked the tall grass that was growing up on the electric fence.  We cleaned up the shearing area and clippers.  Took showers and then headed to the fairgrounds to take care of the sheep.  The boys took their sheep out to work with them.  We got home around 8:30 and had popcorn pop and ice cream.