General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...part 9 :-D, 1 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
Hello, ummm, rice pudding! It's good with the tea.

Darius, it will be good to have you home again and with us oftener. Thanks for giving us updates of the progress on your sister's house repair and spruce up. When you get home I hope it is warm enough to open up the doors and windows and air the place out. You haven't mentioned your health since you have been in Fla, so I hope it has been better and will continue to be so. Did you do any hunting for a place yet, or is it too soon for that?

The lambs just keep comming without any sign of slowing down. That's ok as long as we can keep enough pens empty. Last night I repaired the only available pen to put a ewe into that I knew was lambing out in the field. It is much easier to bring a ewe in when she already has a lamb than before she delivers. They usually pick a spot that seems just right and are reluctant to leave it. I could have brought the whole flock into the barn and sorted them, but there was already a ewe in labor in the barn who was not in a pen. When I went out to pick up the ones that were outside one of the lambs had died with the birth sack over it's head. Darn! Gusss maybe I should have brought the flock inside after all and then I might have seen it in time to remove the sack. This morning at daylight there was another set of twins and another ewe who followed the lambmobile in, she was so close to delivery that the lamb's feet were sticking out. How can they walk like that?

I saw the amublance go by early this morning with lights flashing, so now I am wondering who on our back country road with only 6 houses would have needed it. So far we have eliminated 3 households but still don't know what happened. Things like that are a big event out here in the country.

Yesterday I went riding for about 2 1/2 hours, covered about 12 miles up and down lots of hills mostly at a trot. The day was very nice but the wind got a bit cold on the way home. Horses travel faster going toward home and seem to have a built in compass, they can tell which is the "right" direction as soon as we turn that way. We walk for the last mile so the horse is fairly cool by the time we get home, but some days that is chill time for me. I need to ride a different one today, same route but the day is cooler and I can see it is snowing in the mountains to the northwest of us, that is very good, we really need it. The forest service is already bracing for a bad fire season.

My hubby has had that flu bug, he has quit running a fever but still is having problems laying down to sleep. Even sitting up most of the night trying to snooze in a chair produced a lot of coughing spells. His doctor told him he is seeing about 50 cases of this per day!

Have a great day everyone. Here is a picture of some of the lambs and their mothers out in the field, it is getting a real population explosion. This is where they go from the barn, so the youngest here would be 4 days old and the oldest not quite 3 weeks.