General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...For Sunday, March 5, 2006 =^..^=, 0 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
Good morning. 2nd try at this. AmandaPanda jumped on to the keyboard and erased the first one.

Pattischell, I still have a bunch of similiar pictures. I'll post one for you, glad you liked it so much.

Julie WHO? Wow, she is having fun. Yep, she missed a whole lot of good treats while the rest of us raided the counter and the cookie jar.

Blooms, good to have you back even tho it was a short visit. Just pop in and say Hi when you can, we understand. There aren't many of us who can keep up with all this yakking anymore, so most of us just hit the high spots and I guess it all evens out because different things seem to stick in people's minds.

Defoe, see what I mean? Dmc is right." Blessed are the merciful." That's you, dear.

Lauri, sorry to hear you have a pain in the neck. That's better than being one but less comfortable for the moment. Good excuse to sit around with a heating pad and catch up on reading or napping. Most things are better in 3 days.

Meezer, we fight those Canadian thistles and also the Scottish ones that are 10x worse. They are a biennial(sp?) that makes a flat sort of rosette the first year and looks kind of innocent, then the 2nd year sends up a seed stalk and becomes a seed bearing monster. We mow them with a tractor (thinking a bit bigger on 80 acres) and have less of them every year. No poisons, etc. Another way to control them is to cut into the root below ground and remove the top. It might come up again but a second beheading takes care of it.

The daily lamb report: six ewes delivered lambs yesterday but none on my night watch. However, I did put a yearling ewe in the barn to proceed with her labor and delivery out of the cold wind. The 30 or so ewes that are still carrying their lambs were brought to the barn where I sorted them, lost the one I wanted out the door once but had been smart enough to close the corral gate so they couldn't go back out to the pasture, so they just went through the barn again and I got her and one other isolated in a back corner while the rest of them left. She probably had a lamb by the time the owner got there to check them about 5am. The ewe I had been milking the past couple of nights now has a 2nd foster lamb since there was a set of triplets born yesterday. 3 lambs to feed is too many, 2 is just right. I can see my night check job ending soon. Tonight is forecast to be stormy again, so you can bet there will be more babies.

Ok, put your coffee down to save the keyboard. Lambs in the living room? well, I've had them about everywhere else in my house. I even stuck a little lamb in bed with my husband once. The lamb had been born the day before and was a bottle baby for some reason, but had gotten chilled again. I fed him and needed a place to get him warmed up quickly, but was on my way out to do my chores. Hubby was still in bed, ah ha! the perfect solution! I said "here, warm this little guy up, I have to go out". They both went to sleep. Just before I got back inside the phone rang, hubby answered the extension next to the bed, was talking, I came in and said something, the lamb heard my voice and said MAAAAA. The person on the other end of the conversation asked if we had a phone in the barn." No, I have a lamb in bed with me." Silence.

Oz, glad to hear that you got some needed rain. I never understood the Biblical "blessing of rain" until I moved to a dry climate from one where we just wished it would quit.

I'm going to post this now and will catch the rest of the thread later.

Pati, is this the pic?