Anyway, I thought I would share a couple more pictures of our lambs to lighten my mood.
I just like this picture of two of the lambs with their mothers. The ewe lamb on the left is only 2 weeks old - she's huge!
I just like this picture of two of the lambs with their mothers. The ewe lamb on the left is only 2 weeks old - she's huge!
I had to share the photo of this little family because there is a story behind the birth of these two lambs. Shauna called me a little over a week ago trying to find out what to do because the ewe was lambing and had three legs and a head out. I talked her through the process of pushing the two back legs back in, then pulling the head and front leg out. It turned out that the little brown ewe lamb was not coming out fast enough for her bigger brother, so he passed her in the birth canal and was born first. She was 8 pounds at birth. He was a whopping twelve! So, there you have a success story.
I just thought this last picture was fun. This lamb was playing with the cat - needless to say, the cat was not amused.
Otherwise, it has been a good week. The last couple days have been warm - a whole 40 degrees today! I walked home without a jacket, which was novel. I had two exams today and will have one more on Monday. Lamb watch starts next week for the sheep class I am a TA for, so I will be on call some nights. It can be exhausting but I sure enjoyed all the experiences I had last year. I saw a lot that I probably would never have had the opportunity to experience otherwise. I have been doing a little bit of training with Tika. We can't do a lot with the snow, but she is enjoying the mental exercises.
Every year, my family puts up a Christmas village. We have two villages - the Snow Village, and the North Pole village, which of course has lots of Santas, elves, reindeer, and anything else you would find at the north pole. The village is never the same from year to year. This is last year's set up of the North Pole. This is only about a quarter of the total set up (we went a little crazy last year). The longer you look at the village the more you see - in this little section, there is an elementary school, Santa's workshop and observatory, a sledding hill, a skating rink, and more...
Then I groomed him for the Christmas pictures in front of the tree. Yes, Tika was groomed a little as well but not to the same extent, and her transformation was not so drastic. She usually looks nice - I had forgotten how nice Sherlock could look, though. So, here are Sherlock's post groom pictures.
