Off-Topic 2023

edewitt · 2023-02-11T15:21:58+00:00

I figured we could use a thread dedicated to off-topic thoughts/discussions despite many of us going off-topic practically everywhere in here already 😉 (not...

Krista

edewitt What breed are your sheep and what is their primary purpose?

edewitt

Krista They're dorpers. My gf bought them for workin' the border collies we have and also for meat. I was slightly traumatized with the first meal we had partly because I knew the little jerk all his life and it was begrudgingly tasty which was weirdly upsetting. He managed to father quite a few of this last batch of lambs and you can definitely tell from all the ram lambs acting just like their dad.

Darce

The winter jewels series are more elaborate and fantastical while pine knot’s hellebores are simpler but they are really really graceful and pretty
This is my pic of the all the assorted flower colors in the six packs one they reached blooming size (all except the very black double - that is from winter jewel series)

Darce

Sorry meant to post this in different thread! My apologies
Truly living up to the title off topic!

Darce

edewitt
I know I could never raise goats (even if I had a farm) because I would get attached! It would wind up being me and a bunch of goats on the sofa watching Bob’s Burgers and eating tofu lol.
Which makes me suuuuuuuch a hypocrite because I had the yummiest lamb tamales last night (an equally cute and frolicsome creature)

Krista

edewitt Dorpers! I just googled them - thank you, they’re just very sweet. But lamb is delicious, and I imagine even more so when you can raise them yourselves, with care. And now I can’t wait for photos of your border collies!

Darce

Ack I said goats when I meant lambs but you get the idea - I am really not covering myself in glory in this thread🤣

Krista

Darce You’re doing great, no worries! ❤️

edewitt

Darce Yeah don't mind me. If I do a "laugh react" I'm laughing with ya.

Here's the border collie bunch. We've got Wren a shorthair, Johnny, and Priscilla she's quarter Corgi, quarter Border Collie, and half Australian Shepherd. She basically looks like a Corgi with regular legs.

Juliarugula

edewitt they’re so beautiful!

My project this weekend was building a fence, which I’ve never done before. I was surprised at how uneventful the project was. It took me three days, about 40 feet of fence (we had the rest of the yard done about 3 years ago, but this last section remained chain link.

Leo “helped”.

Darce

edewitt
I have never had a border collie but I have a Australian shepherd- Rufus is so smart! He sometimes ‘herds’ his stuffed toys in faint rememberance of his working dog heritage but he is truly more

suited to be a foppish aristocrat 😆

Krista

edewitt They are just the sweetest little pack. And they have their very own flock of sheep, what lucky pups!

AndreaB

My ~~helpers~~ troublemakers

Juliarugula

AndreaB oh hey look! Your puppers look like my pupper!

That one in the back looks like she/he is plotting something…. 😆

Darce

What good pups- every one of them!😍

AndreaB

Juliarugula oh hey look! Your puppers look like my pupper!

They do! Only yours looks like it’s a good helper 🙂

Juliarugula

AndreaB just to be clear, he was stealing my hammer, not bringing it to me!! 😂

AndreaB

Juliarugula Oh… it’s a boy! My Three Stooges are all girls.

Teddahlia

We have two Aussies.

Darce

Teddahlia

Aren’t they the smartest dogs! I love my Rufus so much- he is getting up there in years and needs help in the morning with the stairs but once he gets outside he dashes around like a pup and gives out his Aussie high pitched yodel scream-barks if he sees his arch enemy- the neighbors sweet docile black lab 😂

AndreaB

Teddahlia We have two Aussies.

Let’s see!