Valais at Plumpys Peaceful Pastures

01/06/2026

01/06/2026

Our hearts go out to our international acquaintances and friends in the Canton of Valais as they struggle with many losses due to a tragic New Year’s eve fire in Crans- Montana.

УНН Society ✎ At the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana, skiers honored the 40 dead and 119 injured in the fire by forming a heart in the snow. The prosecutor's office i…

01/04/2026

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01/04/2026

Saturday Sheep Trivia for the Valais Blacknose

01/03/2026

Can you guess what is GROWING

01/02/2026

FUN FACT FRIDAY

A flock member has asked me to post facts about Valais Blacknose Sheep weekly so that they could learn more about the breed.

Per your request Flock Member here is a fact for you .

I will try to keep the FUN FACT FRIDAY going if there is enough interest

I have many more to share , let me know what ya all want ?

01/02/2026

This was by far the biggest highlight of 2025 ( Feb / March )

Switzerland Trip :

Main reason :

I completed a grading course for the Valais Blacknose Sheep hosted by Oberwalliser Schwarznasen Schafzuchtverband in Switzerland .

This course was not possible without the orgnanization from Marita Tauni DVM , Emma Collison ( Both Swiss trained graders and Judges ) , Sue Zimmerman and Oberwalliser Schwarznasen Schafzuchtverband. Sue lives in the village of Visperterminen. A very small village in the Valais region of Switzerland, where we stayed while I took the course.

Thank you all so much for making this experience and course possible .

This was a 3 day course with teaching , instruction and hands on experience with the Swiss experts . The course participants followed the Swiss experts during Widdermarkt ram market as they graded over 300 sheep and we graded alongside them.

The US is currently in the process of setting up a graders guild . I spent 5 months on a review committee for the guild reviewing bylaws , rules and regulations . The US will eventually form the guild after this process is completed where the interested parties will be able to proceed through the process / pathway to become a certified grader/judge within the US.

Before Rich and I met up with the group we spent a few weeks touring Switzerland and celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary early ( our real anniversary was October ) but this trip made sense to celebrate our anniversary .

01/01/2026

Fun with friends last night

Thank u Johan and Marianna for hosting and for such a wonderful evening !

What a delicious traditional South African meal 😋😋😋

Great laughter and fun

01/01/2026

What traditions do you have for NEW YEARS ?

We went to some friends house for New Year’s Eve.

They wanted to do an Irish tradition where they opened the back door at midnight and we all pushed out and had the past ( 2025 ) leave.

Then they opened the front door and we all greeted and let the new year( 2026 ) in.

I thought that was a cool tradition and it actually felt really relieving to open that back door and push out 2025 , while it felt refreshing to open the front door door and let the new 2026 year in.

Would like to hear more traditions ?