12:01 AM, 1 June 2010
Cool & dry, slightly overcast

We've lost several more ducks but no more geese. Investigation today turned up that in addition to a raccoon, there's coyote dung with duck feathers in it; this suggests that either the coyote are coming up to eat the ducks, or possibly they're finishing off whatever the raccoons are leaving behind. Discussions and research has been made and the conclusion come to involves a shotgun.

Wimsey's ailments finally caught up with him and we had the vet out on Friday. We miss him dreadfully already and will be planting him under a tree in the garden.

We have come to tentative conclusions regarding fencing in the sheep. Another lamb died today by strangling itself on the fence, and we butchered it and cooked it as part of our Memorial Day fare. The party was a huge success, the lamb tender and delicious, with a surfeit of other foods.