My 'pregnant teenager' Bernice lambed last night! She looked a little suspicious at chore time, so I went back down a couple hours later and found her talking to a vigorous moorit ram lamb who was already up and soon at her udder. She was being a great little mother; I watched for quite awhile to see if a twin or the afterbirth would be delivered and finally decided she was done. When I got to the house I woke Brian up (he had fallen asleep on the couch) and asked if he'd mind if I named my Mothers Day lamb after him, since he's the one who made me a mother. He grinned and said that was fine; now I have to decide if the lamb will be Brian, Bryan, or Bry. If he's wethered it won't matter as I won't register him, but time will tell. Yes, he's the result of 'line-breeding' of which I'm not a fan, but sometimes the results can be awesome and first impressions are extremely positive.
No matter the late night, this morning started bright and early at 5:00 to finish prepping for the concrete coming at 7:00. My contributions were doing all the chores (as I did Sabbath morning; at half-speed but still, yay me!) and returning the laser level to the equipment rental store. Brian took the morning off to help, along with several other volunteers (bless them!) but ended up getting sick (possibly/probably with Norovirus😷). I spent hours on hold then talking to a nurse on his behalf; he was begging to go to the ER or urgent care but that isn't warranted at this point. He is not an easy patient – and I am not a natural nursemaid like my MIL, but Rick thought I should stay home today and do my best.
ANYway, here are progress photos of our beautiful new shop floor. Thanks to Rick's FIL and BIL (who took over his father's concrete business and drove up from CA with tools to head up the project), we have a nicer finish in our shop than we do our garage or daylight basement floor!
We've gotten a little rain over the weekend and today, not the soaking we need but better than nothing. I've been taking photos of our iris and other flowers as they bloom, and raindrops add a sparkly touch.
That's it for now from . . .
9 comments:
I'm glad things are moving forward so well with the shop, with lambing, with your knees :-) The iris are so lovely. My yard is such a mess at the moment . . . but my knees are not hurting so much as they were, which is really a gift, so I might be able to get some yardwork accomplished now that the days are warm here. Happy Mother's Day :-)
Oh, believe me, our 'yard' is a mess, too! Rick improved some areas by weed-whacking, and I spent too long last week doing some weeding of the island bed, but SO much more needs to be done. Such is life!
Thrilled to see that you are up and about doing chores! Sorry about Brian’s Norovirus. I hope you don’t get it. The concrete and flowers look great.
That was a pretty darn nice day :-)
I took him to the doctor and then the ED today; still don’t know what’s going on but it doesn’t look like Norovirus.
Yes, it was! Need one of those once in awhile.
(Both "Anonymous" comments were mine, posted from my iPhone.)
Hey, sounds like you are able to get around pretty well - even at half speed! Great Job! The baby lamb is just adorable.
I so love all of your photos! Those fleeces look amazing, and that adorable lamb... so cute! Love the fawn photos, and I'm happy that you get to ride Stella again. I think you're doing fantastically well!
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