Hi Folks -
I got out to the sheep pasture today for the first time in a week and saw the new CVM lamb! She is something wonderful -- sooty coal black with a couple of tiny white dots under her eyes, a few white freckles on her helicopter blade-sized ears, and two reddish knees. She is tagged and tailed now and out in the pasture with mom (who is really glad to be out of the lambing jug). She was sorta the bonus lamb this year and what a bonus she is.
In other sheep news, the couple who bought the Tunis ewe lambs came out today from the other side of the Valley, and got to meet their new crew. They decided to take King as well and I think everyone will be happy with that choice. The buyers, because they are getting an excellent animal who will provide awesome lambs with great fleece; me, because the lambs are growing up and ready to be on their own; my granddaughter (who actually owns King) because this is her first big sale; and finally King, because he gets to move on to greener, flood-irrigated pastures and be in charge of 6 ewes! It would be really fun to see him as King of the Pasture (which I imagine looking something like the above photo ;)), and we might because he was sold with a possible breed-back so we can have another chance for his size and fleece.
Looking ahead to Monday, well, it's gonna be another "stuffed mailbox" day of farm chores. We are hiring a couple of crews and want to tear through an enormous list of things -- everything from digging a very looooooong electrical trench by hand (because there are buried sprinkler pipes), to raking pastures, fixing sprinklers, building an irrigation levee to keep the water out of the sheep shed, spraying weeds checking on trees -- as always, it's endless. But maybe, just maybe, by the end of this summer we can consider that things are "built" and we can move into maintenance mode. Here's hopin'!
But today -- hurray for lambs coming and going.
Thinking of ewe -
The Shepherd
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