Temperature: 38 F, calm and clear
Today was calm but busy, filled with cleaning the workshop where the barn cats have been living thanks to a sale on shop vacs at Home Depot. The cats spent their time wandering in and out of the garage while more cage construction went on; the black and white cat returned and fought a bit with Tootles and in general caused ruckus with Nibs and the others. It took a farmer to repeatedly drive it off; finally an arrow fired over its head drove it off so that it stopped coming all the way up the drive.
One of the lambs got tangled in disconnected mesh fence quite badly; it took both farmers to get it disentangled again.
Both flocks got fresh doses of sheep mineral, and fresh water all round. Minnow was groomed a bit but she was not happy with being groomed and so ultimately she was given a frozen water bottle to cuddle up to in case she got overheated, the day having been a warm one.
There are now three goose eggs that have been laid under the porch.
Tomorrow the vet comes to give pills for Wimsey, rabies & distemper shots for the barn cats, and to give the appropriate shots to the new lambs, all six of them. This means the farmers will have to round up said lambs before their arrival around approximately noon. Fun times.
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