Happy Thanksgiving

We are celebrating Thanksgiving a day late because it fits my schedule better and I can't really see that it makes any difference what day we do it up here -- fairly confident that I'm the only person on the island who is celebrating Thanksgiving..

So our modified menu includes a chicken pot pie -- made of course with a chicken that we harvested...

And, of course, pumpkin pie, made with a pumpkin which was leftover from when the school bought all the children pumpkins for Halloween and now has a new destiny in life -- to make my tummy happy!  :)

 This Thanksgiving I am grateful for being here on Sanday and I am grateful that I have Danny in my life...

Time for some sheep sex...

Friday was the big day, but no pic until now because I had my Covid jab AND my flu jab on Friday and have felt like crap all weekend.

Pete the ram is now in with the girls and he has six weeks to make us some lamb babies...!  

Crappy photo -- the only way I can get them to stand still at a distance from me is to put food down -- so of course (with the exception of black ewe) they all have their noses to the ground.

I doubt I will succeed in catching Pete in action -- I don't think I ever saw Rhodri in action at Bwlchyrhyd either -- but he did his job well, so I have every confidence in Pete.  Watch this space in 152 days or so...

Sparrows

This time last year, we had tons of sparrows here at Sparrowhall -- this year, not so many -- here's why: