[Jacob-list] Blizzards & Lambs

[Thomas Simmons]

Of course, it had to be....

I've got two feet of snow on top of the last two feet, with the snow still coming down like crazy.  It's so high I can't carry the water buckets from the house to the barn unless i do it one at a time on my shoulder with water slopping in my face....and, true to my calendar, we had TWO lambings this morning.

Mary Ellen, your gal Doris gave birth to a large and lovely  2H gal (via Midian) with tiny eye and muzzle patches, and she has been christened "Blizzard...."  Betty, your gal Edwina also gave me a little girl, picture-perfect markings, via Esau, two nice horn buds....named "Bridget."  Both are about 50/50, and are strong....it's so funny to see the lambs trying to hang out together while the moms try to "break them up."   I kept fairly good records this year; both ewes were with their rams for only a four-day period, and lambing for both is somewhere between 146 -149 days.

Now if I can just get Marilla - who is slightly overdue and HUGE -  to drop my some goodies while I'm home and snowbound......

thom
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