Flurries All Day

There may be a foot of snow in Boston, east of us a bit, but here we had pretty flurries all day as we often do. Weather will get steadily colder all week, then single digits on the weekend. That's when the ladies in waiting will decide to let their babies go. I've had a few nights of wonderfully uninterrupted sleep, and will need every bit of it. When those frigid temps start I will be making barn checks in the wee hours. The East End door is always open and I worry about moms going outside to have some privacy while giving birth. Lilly and Sparky are out of the lambing pen and tootling about the barn now. He's a very handsome young lamb and they make a striking couple. Lilly is black and her mother, Blue Tag, is white. Blue Tag is pregnant again and I would love her to have another Lilly, who is the perfect sheep with the perfect temperament and the loveliest fleece. Blue Tag, who has another name but along the way I gave her a new one, is one of my Founding Mothers, purchased from Lisa Rodenfells in Ohio, and is getting on in years now. A healthy ewe can live for ten or twelve years and give birth into old age if conditions are right.