I'm Back



I even appear in the movie as an extra. There were
camels there too, and I really enjoyed getting to help with them. Al says he'll even send me some camel hair to spin! That's me in the middle, with Cody on the left and Al on the right (the camels are theirs). The camels are Smokey Joe - the white one, Andy, Kramer, and I think you can see Katie's humps in the background.

Making a movie is hard work. Especially all the sitting around waiting to be called to the set. Monday it rained, and since the idea was desert, they filmed indoors and didn't use the animals. But the rest of the time we worked 12-hour days, not counting doing chores with the animals and driving out into the canyons and back. They didn't even get to my sheep until Thursday night, and I thought they just weren't going to get around to them, but they did. The sheep even cooperated reasonably well. I helped handle camels the rest of the time (when I wasn't standing around hanging on to five sheep just in case they were needed). Everybody was very nice. It was a nice break from every-day life, even if I did work too hard to really call it a vacation.

I told Mark how much I liked the camels, so he found these for my very own.


More New Arrivals


Ember had her lamb while I was gone, I think it was Tuesday. I'm told that it is a girl, but my attempt to catch the baby and find out was unsuccessful. Tomorrow.