Down on The Farm - Another Day
Off to work I am today tending the local foods grocery we adopted in Beloit. The day starts with me waking up to the sound of lambs screaming for food. Rich at present has three bottle babies and at about 4:30am they start looking for food. I heard an extra and expected there was a new baby. So I slid down the ice covered hill. Well - it is more like skipping and skiing all in one. Once you get going, you can't stop. So I plummet down the hill and find three wee ones running a muck looking for Rich and his bottles....They've snuck out. They glom on to me and baaaa baaa baaaaaaaaa under my coat that looks like a sleeping bag. Looking for udders, they were.....and so I search for the baby sheep I know is new. I find her baaaaaaaa-ing away and her Mum turned upside down. Stuck.
Mum has been turning upside down for about a week and a half now. This isn't all that normal but it happens. She was top heavy. So me and my sleeping bag coat and a pink down mitten and a brown knit glove 'right' her...She's thrilled to be on her feet and immediately takes care of the wee one.
Up hill is much easier....momentum is gone when you're climbing up hill -so off I go to work.....
Life on the farm.
