first year's blue ribbon lamb

she didn't like it so much

baby Laelie walking from barn

Laelie and me at Skowhegan Fair

1985 big changes, second divorce, new farm on the River Road

show team

leadline at Skowhegan Fair, 1985?

showing Montadales

showing Oxfords

at the Big E with Montadales

another divorce, another farm on the Post Road

me and some new lambs at the new place on the Post Road

Number 39, my true love

new shirts and logo at National Montadale Show and Sale

National Montadale Show and Sale, selling the last of my Montadales

showing at the National sale

I think it was 1996

Laelie, Boo and Mikela helping

yet another farm on the other end of the River Road, and another start this time with Oxfords

beautiful, calm Oxfords

this ewe always looked at the camera

this is the same ewe with her daughter

this is her daughter all grown

and her hairdo I loved

a bunch of Oxfords

crabapples and Oxfords

tree better outside the fence

grass is greener too

beautiful Oxfords

obscurred by snow

added Montadales back into the flock

sheep flock

still crazy about sheep

Topsham Fair with Montadale ewe

Topsham Fair with Oxford

cute face

ready for fairs again

three Montadales

he was a wild thing but a great ram

last ram sold, he was great, kept his sister

me and ram lamb fave

me again with lamb fave

Montadale sired Oxfords at three weeks

freeze frame

incessant snow

tried adding goats, but I'm not a goat person

snowy day

sheared late that year

my last two sheep in Bowdoinham, all shorn

weeds are growing

empty by the pond

no more sheep in Bowdoinham

empty field