Friday, March 26, 2010

Sad

"Maggie was too big for just one lamb," Aimee had said. Which sent me to the back of the north paddock to look around as soon as I got done with work yesterday.

And she was right. A dead white ewe-lamb, sister to the other that lived, was there on the ground between the two placentas, victim of being born in a pouring rainstorm with a shepherd who was at work, when he should have been at home shepherding.

Small-time sheep herding is not a full time farm animal job, not like dairy cows, or any large operation. But there's this one time of the year, see, when you have to be around, when you have to get out of bed at all hours, when you can't let it slip. And I let it slip.

I was only gone for four hours, but that was enough. But I have to work, and so does Aimee. Some occasions like this can't be avoided.

Today I'm not going to get trapped at work by all of the stupid stuff again. Most of it can be done as easily by email as it can in person. I'm going to get done with my class and come home.

2 comments:

  1. what a shame. Glad the other is ok though.

    ReplyDelete
  2. How is the rest of your lambing going? I hope you have been luckier.

    ReplyDelete

Welcome to our Farm Blog.
The purpose of this blog is for Aimee and I to communicate with friends and family, with those of our students, and other folks in general who are interested in homesteading and farming activities.

The earliest posts, at the very end of the blog, tell the story of the Great Farm, our purchase of a fragment of that farm, the renovation of the homestead and its populating with people and animals. Go all the way to the last post in the archive and read backwards from there to get it in chronological order.

After getting tired of spam comments (up to a dozen or more per day), I required commentators to be Google "registered users". You can write me at mwomersley@unity.edu if you have a serious comment or question and are not a registered user.

Spammers -- don't bother writing -- there's no way I will post your spam to my blog. Just go away.