Delays and Lambs

Thursday, 11:37 AM, 25 February 2010
Temperature: 50 F, sunny with a scattering of clouds

Yesterday morning provided us with twin coal-black lambs, courtesy of one of the polled ewes. They are not quite identical, as one has a white blaze on its forehead; we don't know yet whether they're ewe or ram lambs or one of each.

The other ewes continue not to have lambed yet and are somewhat beginning to resemble aircraft carriers. Woolly aircraft carriers, but aircraft carriers all the same.

We had unexpected high winds yesterday, which knocked down the greenhouse and ruining the seedling trays. A trip to the hardware store for rebar to stake it down has taken care of most of that, but there were some seeds that were not so easy to replace; mainly the strawberries. We may opt to pick up some strawberry plants instead later in the season, if we can find a suitably flavourful type of plant.

This weekend we will be descended upon by teenaged boys, courtesy of their parents! Their parents want their three sons to know what hard work really is and as such have 'volunteered' the boys' services to us for a day. We'll feed them well, and work them hard. And they'll probably never want to see us again.