11:57 PM, 23 March 2010Clear and calm weather
The farm has been quiet the past couple of days, with relatively little to report. An abortive attempt was made to move some sheep to a different pasture; the separating of four ewes from the larger ewe flock did not go as hoped, so we'll have to try again.
The barn cats today had success with their hunting. They caught a snake a bit over a foot in length, bringing it into the workshop where it feigned death as hard as it could in order to avoid the real thing. A farmer rescued it with a stick, finding no puncture wounds in it; it recovered sufficiently to try to hide under some stray bits of straw, so here's hoping it survives. Looking it up online, it seems most probable that it's a Western territorial garter snake. At this size, it's harmless to anything we've got on the farm which we're serious about keeping.
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