First of all, Brava has improved a bit. Yesterday morning I started using a new bottle of B-complex with a higher dose of thiamine (I had noticed that the bottle I had been using was
quite expired), and last night she was noticeably perkier and more energetic. This morning when I let her out of the
JUG into the fold, she immediately went to the feeder to nuzzle around. Had she been getting
JUST enough thiamine from the expired stuff to keep her alive, but not enough to turn her around? Maybe; maybe, too, the steroids Rick has given her the last four nights have helped. Whatever has done it, I pray that she continues to improve. I feel so sorry for my little pincushion; she's losing clumps of wool on her hindquarters and hates to see us coming!
JUNGLE-gyms are not
JUST for
JUNIORS! "Auntie Bella" hangs with the lambs a lot of the time. The other morning when the lambs headed for the big maple to play, Bella went, too. Then - look out - wide load coming through! I don't know if the lambs thought anything of it, but it sure surprised me!
This is what Russell and I brought home as our
JUST desserts for winning one of our Third Level tests yesterday afternoon! The forecast rain held off, too; so it was a
JIM-dandy show all the way around.
Whether I can quite believe it or not, I am taking a
JOURNEY in
JUNE with my mom and sister. My mom had invited us over a month ago to
JOIN her on a mother/daughters retreat at Rio Caliente, a "rustic vegetarian spa" outside Guadalahara, Mexico, but I thought there wouldn't be a snowball's chance in
Rancho Laurena that I could go along. My life is too complicated, too hectic and over-committed to escape for eight days. But with the help and cooperation of my DH (emphasis on D!), a couple of Rick's clients (who are covering the office since both Rick's secretary AND I will be gone) and mother-in-law (who is coming to help care for Brian), along the
amazing generosity of my mother, it has all been worked out and my first-ever passport is in process. Somebody pinch me!
Like my moorit triplets? Valentine's two and Dinah's ramling Browning, born four days apart, are very similar in size and color (Dinah's white ewe lamb is taller). Closer inspection reveals differences; Browning is slightly lighter and has head spotting.
Boulderneigh Browning is featured bachelor #3. Like all the lambs this year, he is nice and square with a good tail; I suspect he is half-polled. He is a
JOLLY little fellow, which I will have to watch - unless no one speaks for him and he becomes Braveheart's companion wether. It would be nice to have a darker fleece to play with!
That's it for now at . . .
Labels: family, Rick, Russell, sheep, showing, sister
It's interesting to see the lambs bed down in pairs at night, always with their twin, even though they all play together in a mass during the day.
Like little boys, little lambs crash hard when they finally go down!
Today's featured lamb is Boulderneigh Blizz, Rechel's grey ramling born April 4. He has definitely inherited a poll gene from his sire, making him a half-poll. At this point he has little scurs growing in depressions on his head - as WELL as a nice, square body, soft fleece, and tiny tail! He would make a handsome flock sire for someone desiring polled genetics. He is greying at a much slower pace than his twin, so I am guessing he may be Ag/Aa, and he is definitely carries brown. (Compare Blizz's midside shot, top, to Bluster's midside shot, bottom.)
As with any of my lambs, just contact me via the "Email me" link at right and we can discuss price and transportation. This is one of the lambs I plan to show at Black Sheep in June, so he could be picked up there.
Stop NAIS from stopping small "farmers" like me!