A jambalaya of "J"s

First of all, Brava has improved a bit. Yesterday morning I started using a new bottle of B-complex with a higher dose of thiamine (I had noticed that the bottle I had been using was quite expired), and last night she was noticeably perkier and more energetic. This morning when I let her out of the JUG into the fold, she immediately went to the feeder to nuzzle around. Had she been getting JUST enough thiamine from the expired stuff to keep her alive, but not enough to turn her around? Maybe; maybe, too, the steroids Rick has given her the last four nights have helped. Whatever has done it, I pray that she continues to improve. I feel so sorry for my little pincushion; she's losing clumps of wool on her hindquarters and hates to see us coming!

JUNGLE-gyms are not JUST for JUNIORS! "Auntie Bella" hangs with the lambs a lot of the time. The other morning when the lambs headed for the big maple to play, Bella went, too. Then - look out - wide load coming through! I don't know if the lambs thought anything of it, but it sure surprised me!


This is what Russell and I brought home as our JUST desserts for winning one of our Third Level tests yesterday afternoon! The forecast rain held off, too; so it was a JIM-dandy show all the way around.

Whether I can quite believe it or not, I am taking a JOURNEY in JUNE with my mom and sister. My mom had invited us over a month ago to JOIN her on a mother/daughters retreat at Rio Caliente, a "rustic vegetarian spa" outside Guadalahara, Mexico, but I thought there wouldn't be a snowball's chance in Rancho Laurena that I could go along. My life is too complicated, too hectic and over-committed to escape for eight days. But with the help and cooperation of my DH (emphasis on D!), a couple of Rick's clients (who are covering the office since both Rick's secretary AND I will be gone) and mother-in-law (who is coming to help care for Brian), along the amazing generosity of my mother, it has all been worked out and my first-ever passport is in process. Somebody pinch me!

Like my moorit triplets? Valentine's two and Dinah's ramling Browning, born four days apart, are very similar in size and color (Dinah's white ewe lamb is taller). Closer inspection reveals differences; Browning is slightly lighter and has head spotting.Boulderneigh Browning is featured bachelor #3. Like all the lambs this year, he is nice and square with a good tail; I suspect he is half-polled. He is a JOLLY little fellow, which I will have to watch - unless no one speaks for him and he becomes Braveheart's companion wether. It would be nice to have a darker fleece to play with!

That's it for now at . . .