Temperature today - 16 C

Weather - Sunny, clear, little bit cold

Wind - Light southwesterly

Tasks for the day - Bringing in the wood. We burn oak logs from the our woods in the wood burner. Here’s Benjamin helping Daddy Rich with the logs:

Fire in the wood burner - not the first of the year, but pretty close!

Today we separated the rams from the ewes. We borrowed a prize-winning Llanwenog ram to put in with our sheep, and they’ve been having a lovely time. Today the love-in stopped for a week, to give everyone time to recover and make sure all the ewes are on the same cycle, so that the lambs will all be born at the same time. Here one of the rams, looking grumpy because he’s suddenly on his own:

The ram has orange paint on his brisket (chest, between his front legs) so that we can tell which ewes have been mated and which ones have been neglected. The different splotches of color are ways of marking them for different things, to identify them. Here they are, after being let back into the field: