From: Stacy Murphy [mailto:
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:28 PM
To:
Subject: geat progress on the homefront verses backtrack feet again on Sweet Pea Farm
Yup,
Or “Ooops I did it again” – if I remember it’s a
Yeah, ok, Monty Python – “tis just a minor flesh wound” is getting’ a little stale folks – how ‘bout a break?
A couple pics for you to see of the fen
All I want is simplicity and pea
Oxoxox
Stacy
From: Stacy Murphy [mailto:
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:57 PM
To: Stacy Murphy
Subject: Fw: Sweet Pea Farm Update 11/6
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From: Stacy Murphy
To: Stacy Murphy
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:49 PM
Subject: Sweet Pea Farm Update 11/6
Well - here we are - it is almost winter here in
The temp has fallen as low as 29 degrees here at night, a hard frost on the ground, a heavy i
Willie and Rosie having basically 4 sweaters built into their bodies, find the chilly temps quite invigorating, and have been racing around the entire meadow, full tilt - as fast as they can - jumping and bucking the whole way. Well, actually Rosie does most of the running, Willie, - is well - just Willie! He just kind of follows - meanders along - where Rosie takes after her owner - the "ever ready energizer bunny" doing everything as fast as she can, full speed. When she runs - she "floats" through the air, bouncing, springing, and her head bobbles to and fro- like the little dashboard bobble dolls for cars - it is hysterical - I keep meaning to buy a video camera for all to see - they both look exactly like cotton balls - springing through the air with stilts for legs. Those of you who have seen it, know exactly what I have written. I am laughing as I type this, seeing Rosie as we speak, running. My friend who is also a miniature sheep owner states the running is done by her female as well, and her male just meanders too - it must be a "girl" and a "guy" thing.
They are better than dogs - Rosie is very verbal, baas when anyone arrives. I can hear this inside my house, she is my doorbell, and I know when I need to greet someone at the door. The come running when you call out to them, wanting to be petted. They both continue to gain weight, I have not weighed them lately due to my shoulder surgery, but I can tell you they are getting, finally, thank goodness, quite chubby.
Both sheep have lost their little lamb appearan
Rosie went from "Miss Snuggles" - to a pre-Madonna prin
They both rival for my attention, if I am in the pen or meadow - they are both pulling, chewing, tugging on my clothes, camera, food cup or whatever I have on me. I am literally pulled in 2 directions trying to give attention to both my babies. Willie's new game, which can be annoying, is head butting. I have scolded him, pushed him away, talked buttery cooing noises to him, all to no avail. He is a RAM, and that is what they do.
Luckily he weighs very little, but imagine my surprise when I was bent over in the pen, cleaning the stall floor, and I get butted, in the butt. It was a slight nudge, but nonetheless, it still caught me off guard. Willie thinks it is funny. Actually, it is funny, as he is so tiny, his charging accomplishes nothing. He will back up 3 feet, wiggle his rear end, lower his head, look at you with his little nubs horns from under his eyebrows, and charge you 3 feet, ra
I had to take a break from construction for a couple weeks during my recovery from the surgery, but we have another "list" and I am plugging away at it on
Lots of fun photos for all to see in the progress!
Ashby and I went to NYC on Halloween to see Sting and the Poli
We have close to 70 people on our Sweet Pea Farm update email list - all of you have indicated you love the updates - and seem to get quite upset when I don't send one out! Tell you friends, Willie and Rosie love visitors, we would all love to see you visit Sweet Pea Farm!
Enjoy!
oxoxox
Stacy
From: Stacy Murphy [mailto:
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:23 PM
To:
Subject: SWEET PEA FARM UPDATE 10/1/2007
Here we are!
The first of October already and there is a nip in the air late at night and the wee hours of the morning. It has been many times already where I have gotten up at dawn and seen my breath in the air. The trees are starting to change, signaling summer is drawing to an end and fall is coming. Our weather has been stunningly beautiful lately though – dry air, clear brilliant blue skies with not a single cloud anywhere to be seen. I often look up to see many hawks lazily circling above, sunlight splashing on their undersides as they turn back and forth in the sky.
Sweet Pea Farm has been plugging slowly along – in a multitude of fashions.
The master bedroom and bath are almost finished. The antique clawfoot tub I powersanded, and went from lying in the driveway, to being carried upstairs and pla
I have painted the trim and bead board, the walls and the
Willie and Miss Rosie are doing just fine- in fact I have wormed them twi
I can almost vouch they have gained even more weight sin
My normal routine was to lock them in the stall at night. But that became impossible with my broken shoulder as I had to drag a grate across the doorway at night. So I now let them run the pasture, which as all of you know has a 6 foot fen
3 weeks ago I was awakened abruptly at 4am by a sound that was all too familiar to me. It was a pack of coyotes – probably about 10 of them – and they were working their way around the perimeter of the property – screaming, calling and howling as coyotes do. For all of you who have heard a pack, you know what blood curdling sounds they make. If you have not heard a pack of coyotes, just image 10 children all screaming at the top of their lungs all at on
I knew they coyotes couldn’t get into the sheep area, but I didn’t particularly want 10 of them harassing my sheep. My eyes snapped open and I leapt out of bed – broken collarbone or not – I wasn’t just going to let the little bastards terrorize my sheep! I ran downstairs, turned on all the lights, as I exited the house MADE SURE I slammed the door really loud, and headed toward the pen and the garage. I opened the garage door and grabbed the shovel with one arm and started slamming it against a cinderblock I had in the driveway – making loud noises. It turned deadly silent. It was about 40 degrees, and crystal clear, the sky was loaded with twinkling stars, with an almost full moon. No more coyotes, Poor Willie and Rosie were standing out in the middle of the meadow when I went into their pasture. I don’t think they had ever heard coyotes before in their young 5 months of age – and they were trembling and puffing. I sat with them a while, and then went back in. I found late in the day there was a dead deer on the far right end of my property which probably drew the coyotes as it appeared they had been working on it for a while. I called the highway dept. and had them take it away. The coyotes have not been back.
Wille and Rosie had visitors on Saturday! They were enthused for a while, then sauntered off to eat more apples on the hill. Inez, Line and Inez’s son visited and fed the little ones – they all seemed to have fun, and there was lots of laughs! See pics!
The motorcycles are on the mend – parts being repla
It has been a little intense – I was told I needed can
More updates and photos to follow as I get the upstairs pulled together and slowly decorated!
Enjoy!
Oxox
Stacy
From: Stacy Murphy [mailto:
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 4:21 PM
To:
Subject: Sweet Pea Farm Update 9/8
Here we are on Sweet Pea Farm,
As usual, nothing is ever calm here.
Willie and Rosie continue to improve health wise. Their personalities have taken a dramatic turn, as they continue to feel better, and increase their strength after the blood transfusion and worming. In fact, Willie now is asserting himself as “a man” and will not tolerate Rosie’s bossy behavior. He now stands his ground when she barges in to take his food, and if she makes him mad – their newest thing is head butting. I get rather con
In another week, I will worm them again, to catch the second generation of those nasty hookworms that almost killed poor little Willie.
I planned to weigh them, but have had a slight mis-hap of m own. I went riding for the first time in months with a friend on Monday, as I finally got some relief from the 14 hour work day 2 week sprint of August that is the tell tale end of summer as everyone finishes up on their travels. So, Howard and I decided to ride to
It was the Fire Department that showed up. – for you girls – they were a bunch of good looking ones too! I mentioned I used to be “one of them” and we started in with having a jolly good time as they lifted me into the ambulan
I was wheeled in the ER, and had prime view of the entire ward from a room at the end of the hall. This is where I laid, for 7 hours. Interesting to watch, they weren’t really busy, only had 5 people come in from 2pm until 8pm when I left. I had xrays, and a catscan. They put a sling on me and “kicked me out the door”. J Jacques and Ashby were the lucky ones to come retrieve me and drive me home. I never felt better when I looked up and saw Jacques walking down the hall towards me, as I was feeling very alone 2 hours from home, and Howard had left already. That is all they do for a broken collar bone – nothing. No splint, cast or anything, just a sling.
I had no other damage on me – didn’t hit my head, no rips or tears on my leather, pants, gloves, helmet, boots or jeans. The bike itself has very little damage. I typically ride alone, often along the back roads, and have done so for over 3 years. This just seemed to be a fluke thing. So, 5 days later – I have had no pain, and haven’t had to take anything sin
Construction here – I AM HAPPY TO SAY – is drawing to a close – I think another week – still need lighting, paint, beadboard, bath fixtures, doors and trim, the floors need to be sanded and stained. I am afraid to get excited, but it is drawing near! See pics
I have had wonderful people calling and checking on me, and driving me on errands and such. Most of them insist, with my stubborn and self sufficient attitude, I have found it to be a great relief, and wonderful times we have spent together. Thank you to aall for your continued calls and support. It is very difficult to muck out a stall, feed 5 cats, change h2o for birds and vacuum when you have one arm! Simple things like cans of cat food, medication bottle tops and can openers are impossible. You stare at them stupidly as you realize you can’t open them.
That’s all for now as it is difficult to type.
Oxoxo
Stacy
From: Stacy Murphy [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:39 PM
To:
Subject: Stacy's surgery update
Well,
Here we go:
For all of you who have asked – I have to have a titanium plate put in my collarbone on Thursday October 11th. The surgery will be at the
I met with a Sports Medicine Specialist, Michael Schwartz who looked at my broken clavicle. He indicated I had seemingly been misinformed, my shoulder was a very bad break, and it would never heal, and definitely never meet in the middle to mend the 2 broken ends together.
Because of the time lapse of a month, he could no longer use arthroscopic surgery as an option, and I needed a larger incision with the titanium plate. He would have to clean up all the scar tissue that has formed, and,…. unfortunately separate or re-break the bone. Sin
I have enclosed a jpeg for all to see what these newfangled plates look like now. They are not the old Frankenstein steel clunkers – but are pre-curved to fit into the clavicle and even have tapered edges so they don’t stick up out of the skin. He even told me they come in a fancy array of bright colors------whooppeee. L
It is supposed to be a 2 hour pro
I will now join the rank of the humans who set off metal detectors when they travel.
“Just a minor flesh wound – I’m not dead yet!” – (Monty Python – The Holy Grail)
Wish me luck.
Oxoxo
Stacy
From: Stacy Murphy [mailto:
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:27 PM
To:
Subject: SWEET PEA FARM UPDATE - ON WILLY - say a prayer for him
To all who know little Willie-
He has had a rough day – and he is a little trooper.
Willie suddenly showed signs of being quite ill on Saturday dinner. I noti
It took me until Monday to obtain a Vet through
The vet gave me a choi
So, my good buddy Liz, came to the house, we loaded Willy and Rosie into the back of the Isuzu Trooper with Liz sitting in the back with them, and away we went off to Park Animal Hospital in Norwalk. It actually was quite comical, seeing the expressions on people’s fa
Rosie was Willie’s donor. We had no other sour
Rosie was fist, sedated and blood drawn from her. Willie was next, sedated to put the needle in, then awakened, and blood transfused into his little body over a 4 hour time span. I am happy to say, thus so far, as of 8pm, he is showing signs of improvement, no reactions have occurred, and he is eating and standing up. It is a critical 48 hours that we will see what happens.
Luckily, the doctor ran his own fecal tests, and unlike the stupid lab, found Willie LOADED with little hookworms. He was swimming in them, and they were finally the discovered culprit that was sucking the life out of him. Poor Willie!!!! Rosie too!!!!!
So, they have been given medicine to kill off those
Please say a prayer for little Willie, he needs all our strength to get through the next 48 hours with no hitches.
Their “Mommy” wants them both back home at Sweet Pea Farm.
The house by the way is continuing to come along – the upstairs project is being sheet-rocked as we type away this letter. Soon, I will have a master bath and bedroom! Pictures another time!!
Oxox
Stacy
From: Stacy Murphy [mailto:
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:29 PM
To: Brenda Fries;
Subject: FW: SWEET PEA FARM UPDATE 8/12 at Stacy's House
From: Stacy Murphy [mailto:
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:27 PM
To:
Subject: SWEET PEA FARM UPDATE 8/12 at Stacy's House
Sweet Pea Farm had a whole crew of visitors today!
Lots of adults and kids – Rosie and Willie were very busy!
Ginger had a terrific workout with all the attention – adults and kids alike – she loved every minute of it!
Happy, positive and smiling fa
Feeding the sheep, petting the kitties, looking at the exotic finches, and finally all the adults getting suckered into pulling the kids around the yard in the wagon.
The kids enjoyed every minute of it – that’s what it’s all about right?
Lots of laughs and love to all – enjoy the photos!
Stacy
