Lone Star Shepherdess

01/08/2024

American Pelicans
Red tailed Hawk
Great blue heron
1/7/2024

12/14/2023

Looking for a holiday gift? I have some 2024 bird calendars for sale in my shop!

Help your customers mark the day in style with these wall calendars for 2024. Available in two sizes (11" x 8.5" and 14" x 11.5"), these calendars come with high quality paper stock and can accommodate your images in a large format, with vibrant colors. Each calendar comes with a spiral binding and....

12/10/2023

Thank you Collieology for sharing my story!

HOW BORDER COLLIES CHANGED MY LIFE: We know that Border collies can inspire so many of you to take up new pursuits, or even a completely different way of life. And that includes Lindsey Williams, from Temple, Texas USA.

A former city dweller, she originally bought two BCs to compete in Agility with, “then a couple of years later we went to a sheep herding clinic,” she says, “and discovered sheep!". She then developed not only a passion for herding, but also photography – “as Border collies are such great dogs to take photos of.” Some of her pictures are featured here.

“I owe so much to an amazing man I met in 2018 called EB Raley,” she says, ”who was 89 years old and still training and competing with his dogs in trials. He gave me my first real working collie, Tom (pictured here), who is now 14 and actually a girl, and she ignited a new passion in me for herding. I have worked hard to learn the correct way to train working dogs and in 2019 we sold our house in the city and bought a 12 acre farm and started raising sheep for our dogs to work and train with. So these dogs have literally changed my life, and I now can't imagine life without them.”

11/27/2023

Going through some old pictures, and found this gem! Juvenile Bald Eagle Lake Sardis, Oklahoma.
Such a beautiful area!

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🦃! We plan to eat all the food! LOL.

Doc’s face cracks me up! He is like are we done yet?!? 😂
We hope everyone has a great day!

11/05/2023

The fog was really heavy here yesterday morning.
So I decided to ride down to the lake. It is whooping crane and Sandhill crane migration time. They fly right through central Texas, headed to the coast. There are only 200 pairs of whooping cranes in the entire world. There had been reports of them in the area.

No luck finding any cranes, but I did get this cool shot of some deer grazing! The fog gives the photo a cool look!

10/19/2023

Channeling our fall vibes. 🍁🍂

10/19/2023

Shady lady is so much fun!! I am really enjoying her, such a great little dog. Love her little ears!

10/16/2023

Love when I get surprised! Thank you American Lamb Board for the nice hat!

10/10/2023

Wow! 🤩 I’ve missed the beautiful sunsets!

10/07/2023

Happy Friday Y’all, Perfect morning for some dog training, It finally feels like fall! 65 degrees and sunny!

10/05/2023

Drinking my coffee, and enjoying the beautiful rain!

10/01/2023

Ha!!

09/25/2023

Black on black. The original “Motor Man”
😍 I love how it turned out.

07/21/2023

Really proud of my lambs this year! This is the first time I am keeping any replacement lambs. I’ll sell a few to my loyal customers, but most will stay.

It was a long day yesterday getting them all separated from their mothers and moved to the front pasture. The screaming was intolerable, but it is much better today.

Zeus is on duty, there have been reports of 2 big bobcats just across the street from where the lambs are.

Walter our Ram is also up there. But he will be going to his new home next month!

Happy Friday! Off to a dog trial this evening and tomorrow morning! 🙏🏻❤️

05/30/2023

He is just 2 months old. He will make someone a nice ram! He is built very nice! Weaning time soon!

05/27/2023

Check out this easy-to-understand chart from our friends over at the Wyoming Wool Initiative that details the process wool takes from the beginning of wool's journey, when it’s still on the sheep, to the time it winds up in your hands as a consumer.

05/03/2023

I love a good old Texas sunset, especially when it includes some of my favorite things!

04/10/2023

She is just the cutest little lamb! 1 more ewe to
Go for this lambing season!

04/08/2023

So true!!!

04/03/2023

https://youtu.be/c2LDc0t6GlQ
There is a first time for everything.
So far everyone is doing well.

A first for me. This ewe lambed on 03/25/2023 and then again yesterday 04/02/2023. If I hadn't seen the lambs being born I would not believe it either. I ...

04/01/2023

Even with a broken leg you can’t keep me out of the barn! It is a beautiful day to be born! LOL

03/27/2023

3 healthy ewe lambs and another ewe in labor! So many blessings! Great start to the day!

03/26/2023

So nice when a first time ewe, lambs unassisted and gives you healthy twins! One Ram and one ewe lamb.

03/23/2023

A classic for this time of year

For all of you who are knee deep in sheep, lambs, straw, Lamlac, spray marker and dosing guns and running on creme eggs and relentless!

Sheep are suicidal,
Simply born to die,
In the most awkward places,
Legs pointing to the sky,

As lambs, they'll drown in buckets,
Or get suffocated by their mum,
You'll catch it drawing dying breaths,
As you haul the t**t up off her bum,

The sickly ones are living,
The healthy ones drop dead,
There's suddenly an outbreak,
Of watery mouth throughout the shed,

The lambers have escaped,
And got into the feed store,
So you are merrily sprinkling,
Bicarb back and fore,

There's far too many triplets,
The pet pen’s fit to burst,
And balling hungry lambies,
Haunt your nightmares first,

The vets have got no rubber rings,
Your wellies have sprung a leak,
There's a ewe who's pinching everything,
And you've had 6hrs sleep this week,

The townie cousin's have just appeared,
They really want to help you see,
In their new and shiny boilersuits,
And they're going to stay for tea,

Lambing is a tricky time,
And wee things send you wrong,
So just hold on tight to your wits,
Thank fudge the season isn't long!
©JB

03/23/2023

Long day at work, I was so tired 🥺. But once again my animals give me renewed energy! New life is so beautiful and hopeful! Welcome new baby!

Lambing 2023 has begun. So glad I waited
Until March.

02/12/2023

You’ll have to forgive my appearance, I have been a little under the weather. There are no sick days on the farm!

Moving my temporary pens to a more Permanent location. It’s about time it’s only been 3 years 😬🙄😂

We haven't had lambs since February of 2021, so my temporary pen was more like a permanent pen. But today we got the lambing pens moved to their permanent l...

01/27/2023

Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you will look back, and realize they were the big things.

Don’t take anything for granted. Things can change so quick.