Out bleary-eyed at 6.30am to find small polystyrene pellets clinging to my hair. I find a beautiful pair of big ewe lambs have been born since the last check, the first birth I think that has gone unattended; the ewe must have gone from nought to sixty swiftly and easily. I feed and water everything accompanied by excitable bleating. Now the majority of the ewes have lambed and are outside, they bellow at me to get a move on as I walk through them to the feed troughs. They try to get their noses into the bucket as I move fast to avoid being tripped up by their eagerness. I iodine the new lambs, feed the llama, let out the geese and the ducks and fill a haynet for the ram. The polystyrene balls are turning to flakes, thick and heavy, and start to settle. I grab my camera and as the sun comes out to melt the snow, take a record of the morning's chilly beauty.
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Oh what I wouldn't give for polystyrene pellets in the hair? Cause that would mean I had hair.
The snow lying on the fleece shows what a good insulant wool is doesn't it? Perhaps we should make more use of it in insulating our homes - from memory it's pretty slow to burn too.On second thoughts perhaps it would be too much of a moth magnet.
What a start to such a snowy morning. Hope you had your thermals on Mopsa.
lovely looking lambs. the snow came and was gone in no time here.
Toally irrelevant pieces of information no 27:
Iodine is das Jod in German - the only element with a different symbol (J not I)
Sorry about that - do you use it as a marker?
Those pictures are lovely.
Goodness, Bretwalda, I can't keep up with your extraordinary name changes. Have some of mine(hair) I have plenty to spare.
M'ear - but if they ate the insulation perhaps they'd leave the sweaters alone?
No thermals SM, just the usual 2 pairs of trousers!
CIG - ditto - but it's come and gone 3 mornings in a row now.
Kaz, I was always hopeless at chemistry. The iodine is to dip their umbilical cord/navel into - it dries the cord up quickly and stops infection entering in through that very vulnerable point. Have a google for navel-ill if you want to know more!
Ace pictures !
However, have you :-
A/ Obtained the lambs permission ?
B/ Negotiated with them over payment for their 'image rights' ?
Until you have done these, perhaps you ought to 'pixellate' them - we don't want to be getting 'sewed', now do we.. ?
Ace picture also of mopsa's tail wagging so quickly the picture is blurry ! Can you tell us where you live so we can all come down and move in and live in a hippy love commune kinda way ? You should know before acceding to this request that I am absolutely hopeless at farming [which is why I moved from the country] and my willy is rather small in this very cold weather - but I am hoping that it will warm up shortly..
Anon, I had full written permission from the owner - me. And my friends are welcome but this is no commune. Suggest you hunt closer to Totnes for the alternative lifestyle.
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