Little Larry

On Friday afternoon Lisa and I went over to Edith’s to pick up Clarrisa’s replacement and drop off some ewes to breed. Clarrisa, as you may remember, was the only other survivor of the dog attacks. She was wild and we couldn’t keep her in the garage with Daffodil so we took her to Edith’s to be with the big herd. She did okay over the winter and she currently lives upstate in a giant pasture of tulips and dandelions where she can frolic and play from sunrise to sunset without a care in the world. Edith had two ewes culled out, one to replace Clarrisa and one to use as attrition stock. The one we liked was the little round one with face markings similar to Daffodil. This one’s name is Serta.

Serta. She got that name because we think she looks like one of those sheep in the Serta Mattress commercials. 

I was working on the floor for the metal shed. It’s the one we put up over behind the garage. Now we want to put a carport over there so we are moving it. Heather moved her bunnies into it for the winter but now it is going to be a hay shed. No more hay in the garage! Notice I am wearing shorts. It was up in the 70s today.

It has a nice view of the compost pile. I cut those posts off. The one looks crooked because I had to shove it over a couple of inches to get the deck squared. I did it before the concrete went in the holes. Besides it isn’t a post, just a foundation pier.

 

This is Larry. We call him Little Larry for obvious reasons. When we were over at Edith’s picking up Serta we noticed a little calf in the ram pasture. Cory, Edith’s longtime friend and farm hand, told us the calf was his bottle baby. We liked the looks of him and asked if there were any more. Cory took me to the farm this morning and we picked up Larry. He’s a Hereford-Angus cross. He was born a twin and his mother wouldn’t nurse him because she picked the other twin. He’s ten days old and will be on the bottle for about 8 more weeks.

Heather taking her turn with the bottle. Larry didn’t care who held it.

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